An influential group of people spread scientific ideas.

You are trying to paint them to be evil conspirators who converted the saintly creationist scientists to their evil ways, or forced them to submit so that they could have some career success.

Sorry but that doesn't fly. It's a silly fantasy in your head.

I'll say again: this is all irrelevant. Evolution explains the evidence. No one has yet produced a model which explains it better. Most scientists will also have concluded this. No conspiracy theories required.