You're really doing Professor Hawks a disservice by imagining him as some kind of foul right-wing agitator. He's actually bending over backward to be fair.

Here's how a slightly more partisan biologist (Peter Frost) responds to the same material:

http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2011/07/arroseur-arrose.html

Here's the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html