Apart from the fact that the OP specifies a researcher in biology I think that Fred Hoyle would be a reasonable fit, provided we broadened 'evolution' out to cover chemical evolution/abiogenesis.
He did after all provide the ever popular 'tornado in a junkyard' metaphor.
If you two want to have an argument about whether frequentist or Bayesian statistical interpretations are more correct then that is probably the topic for a different thread surely?