I'm sure the man is very intelligent and I can tell you repect his work. However the engineering/technical/science field that he's had all his formal training does not include advanced degrees of biology or medicine. I am just wary of people who are "self taught" about things as important as this. I mean he could not have achieved all of his advanced technical and engineering degrees in hydraulics by just studying and reading on his own. He had to go to school.
I would think that if you're going to use this guy as an example of a evolution vs, creationist scientist, and use his degrees to make a point. He should have degrees in the appropriate fields.
I wouldn't want to be in a building that was desingned by a structural engineer who was self taught.
That's my feeling on it, at least. I'm sorry if you think I'm coming back to this point so much.