Let's see, there was Jean Baptiste Lamarck and his transmutation of species, James Mark Baldwin and his organic selection and Henry Fairfield Osborn and orthogenesis. None of them were labeled nutcases but they were all eventually proven wrong. The fact that no one has come up with a credible alternative in almost 100 years just speaks to the strength of the Theory of Evolution.
Thanks for the useless work.
Jean Baptiste Lamarck and James Mark Baldwin both jumped on the evolution band wagon. Their eariler works are considered as just pandering to the popular opinion according to several sites. There later work is accepted into evolution theory.
Here's a quote on Henry fairfield Osborn.
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 November 6, 1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist. One critic called him "a first-rate science administrator and a third-rate scientist.
But I did say religious and that is not a religious remark so you beat me.
By the way 100 years is nothing people live that long.