You, yes. Others? well, so far Ive seen computer techie, business administrator, one with degrees in math and psychology IIRC, even chemistry chemistry prof. That would make him only as qualified as a physicist whose views are dismissed because he's NOT an evolutionary biologist.
My degree is meteorology, as I've made no secret of. I started out as a bio major but quit because of the difficulty I had with chemistry. I crammed 5 years of college into 15 years but finally got my degree. The only field of science that I didn't take any courses in was geology because it wasn't a required course. Less than half the courses I took were the liberal arts, fill in courses, as required by the college, the rest were math and science.
I'm not saying I can tell working professionals much more advanced than I am how to do their jobs. What I'm questioning is why other scientists with PhD's which are not in evolution, are dismissed when they speak against evoution because of that; but people on this forum who might not (and sometimes don't) even have a basic BA are expected to be believed when they speak in favor of it and feel they are free to criticize others for not accepting their unqualified opinion.
I congratulate you on your perseverance and sympathize about chemistry... I had problems too, and to this day struggle with physiology.
The only reason credentials are being paraded is because someone upthread was challenging the qualifications of those who spoke for evolution, claiming something to the effect that we were all bottlewashers etc.
I, myself, prefer to let the posts stand for themselves.
There is a however, though and it is this: what is blindingly clear to many of us, and most of the scientific world, is definitely not clear to some others, who then feel free to challenge evolution in a way they wouln't challenge quantum mechanics.
I think there are two reasons for that. One is clearly Biblical literalism and a desire for science to conform to it. The other is, in my view, the fact that biology seems easy and the concepts simple as compared to advanced physics and chemistry.
Since I havae done a lot of teaching, even more for the general public since reitrement, I've learned that it is not simple at all and hard to popularize effectively. So, what may seem clear and intuitive, just as in quantum mechanics, just plain isn't, except for those who gravitate to the field.