You are right - I totally misread your question - my bad. I retract (figuratively) my previous comment.
Your position: I just questioned what where he got his degree from has to do with what motivated him to pursue it.
If he got his degrees from a "Moonie" University you might have an argument but he went to UC and UC granted him the Ph.D. so one of the best schools in the country declared that he understood the subject matter and excelled to the point of being granted a Ph.D.
BTW: the topic of this sub-thread is "Evo's dismiss Well's work based on what they think are his motives"
Wells himself has never attributed his pursuit of biology as being divinely inspired, with the objective of using it to refute TToE?