Well they have their Biology degree also.
PHD's
Point is you can find your gadflies on any issue.
Some of these people who are quite bright are
also natural contrarions.

At Baylor University (Baptist school just up the road
where I went to school U of Texas) they
had big problems with some professors teaching
evolution. This was in the late 70's.

Of course Baylor Regents were also skeptical of dancing at the
time.