I saw the thread when it started and just typed in a comment on the fly, never dreaming it would get to have 500+ posts, so I hadn't checked back in on it until I saw your comment here. (I get super busy on my database work!) Sorry for any perceived delay.
When I was at MIT, I majored in mathematics, (Course XVIII), and also computer science, back when it was a subset of Electrical Engineering (Course VI), just becoming its own major (1970). To illustrate how much it was originally electrical engineering, we took courses in transistor theory, circuit design and analysis, queuing theory, probability, and so forth. We never heard of spreadsheets and whatever else is under computer science these days.
I didn't even know anyone in biology, since I don't believe that MIT did health sciences and life sciences very much. About 90% of my classmates were in engineering, math, and computers.
Overall, my perspective on this fascinating subject is one of individualism and unwillingness to be expected to accept the majority opinion without what my mind acknowledges as proof. On campus, I was in a very small minority of political conservatives, and being openly Christian and faced with bemusement and/or hostility merely reinforced my independence of thought.
All the material I have ever read just seems to me to be mathematically suspicious (regarding probabilities of chance events working out so well), as well as being based on a presupposition that not only is evolution true, it is the most true thing there ever was, and one gets treated with scorn for resisting the obvious truth.
Yes indeed. The self-proclaimed "intellectuals" become so very anti-intellectual when this subject is raised.