Well, your professor was an idiot then. There are many idiots on this earth, and your college apparently doesn't do a good job screening them out. Was the guy a researcher in evolutionary biology? What gave you the idea that what the guy does is in any way representative of the science itself?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition