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A few inaccuracies

I maybe should have been more clear when I mentioned evolution, I was referring to the Darwinian concept of natural selection
Without going into semantics, the word evolution had a very different meaning before time of Darwin and Huxley.

But I don't know where you paste this list of names from, but maybe, you should check your own accuracy before accusing others

The Origin of Species was published in 1859, Charles Darwin was born in 1809, and died in 1882.

Newton,
Pascal,
Da Vinci,
Francis Bacon,
Herchel

All died before Darwin was born

George F Howe is a creationist

Lord Kelvin was opposed to Darwin's theory because his (Kelvin's) own calculated age of the earth(quite young) did not fit with Darwin's theory's need for a much older earth. Thus he was not opposed to the theory, but only how it interferred with his own theory.
Lord Kelvin's calculation of earths age by cooling didn't take in to account radioactivity as it hadn't been discovered, and has since been debunked

There was a concept of Evolution before Darwin's time, but it was a profoundly different concept.
In fact Darwin didn't use the word evolution in his treatise as his own Grand-father(Erasmus) had pushed a rather zany concept of evolution.
Evolution as a word associated with Darwin's work was appended only much later, and is now associated with his work.
However in the times of many of the people you mention, and some whom I have had time to check, Darwin ideas were not known, or the word evolution was associated with a very different concept.
So you need to be careful of your history of science before you start putting words into the mouths of Pascal,da Vinci and Newton, for sake of time I haven't had time to check the rest, however just two more

Virchow, I haven't found a quote linking him with Natural selection yet.

Mendel was an ordained priest, 13 years younger than Darwin, and a nervous one at that. He was unlikely to openly support a revolutionary idea, which at the time was not popular with the Church.

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