I don't know dates or details, but I believe that, approximately, what happened was: 1859: Darwin published "Origin of Species"/Wallace published "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type" 1860s through 1900-ish: Evolution through natural selection widely accepted 1920-ish: Natural selection began to fall out of favour, with the emphasis being on fortuitous macromutations 1940-ish: Goldschmidt's "Hopeful Monsters" theory 1950-ish: Neo-Darwinian synthesis brings natural selection back into favour
Creationists often claim that Darin was accepted mindlessly or uncritically, whereas in fact natural selection has weathered a lot of scientific criticism, and survived because it's the best match with observations.
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1859: Darwin published "Origin of Species"/Wallace published "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type"
1860s through 1900-ish: Evolution through natural selection widely accepted
1920-ish: Natural selection began to fall out of favour, with the emphasis being on fortuitous macromutations
1940-ish: Goldschmidt's "Hopeful Monsters" theory
1950-ish: Neo-Darwinian synthesis brings natural selection back into favour
Creationists often claim that Darin was accepted mindlessly or uncritically, whereas in fact natural selection has weathered a lot of scientific criticism, and survived because it's the best match with observations.