[Physicist]

As a physicist, I can say that a significant percentage of my secular peers also think of evolution (and consequently much of biology) as pseudoscience.

As a physicist, I have never met a secular or religious peer who has said this about evolution, ever. And I have discussed the topic widely, at universities and at national laboratories.

As for the Higgs boson, it's understandable that some physicists would express the desire not to find it--or rather, to find that it doesn't exist. The purpose of any experiment is not to verify a theory, but to disprove it, if it can. If the Higgs is found, it's a long-expected event, an anticlimax. If no Higgs is found, it means our theories are spectacularly wrong, and that there are undreamt-of vistas of physics waiting to be explored.

[newguy357]

As a physicist, I have never met a secular or religious peer who has said this about evolution, ever. And I have discussed the topic widely, at universities and at national laboratories.

Fair enough. My sample has been limited to U of MN and MIT. But I would guess miscommunication between us about what we're talking about is more likely than a profound difference in the nature of our respective colleagues.

[LexBaird]

If no Higgs is found, it means our theories are spectacularly wrong, and that there are undreamt-of vistas of physics waiting to be explored.

No, it simply means that no Higgs was found. Perhaps that is because it doesn't exist. Perhaps it is because the $15B tool didn't work as anticipated. Either way, you can't prove a negative.