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They even probably tried to influence the politics of the Royal Society of scientists to forward what they thought was a viable theory.
Oh that's even better. Like Stalin tried to influence the government of the USSR.

Oh, I didn't know they had the military at their disposal. That's a completely different story! How many creationist scientists did they purge? I don't remember anything about scientists disappearing, never to be seen again. They must have done a good job at covering their tracks. Maybe they hypnotized the neighbors of those scientists that they had killed.

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The real question is not if there were prominent non-scientists trying to influence scientific thought and theories. That happens now with the National Academy of Scientists, and the National Science Foundation on one side and the Discovery Institute, Focus on the Family and Trinity Broadcasting on the other. Oh wait...one side HAS scientists...my bad. Seriously, there are also non-scientists on the side of evolution who try to influence science standards.
The real question, when one deals properly with history: what happened?
When one deals improperly therewith: what can we say happened?
We can say those people used their influence improperly. It happens all the time. Using your influence to get people to accept your ideas happens in all walks of life. Hence the Salem Witch trials and the requirement to believe in God in order to hold office in Maryland.

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Regardless, the existence of politically powerful adherents to one side or the other is irrelevant to the truth or falseness of a particular hypothesis. The Discovery Institute is trying to influence science education through the political process. You would not say that their use of that venue guarantees the falseness of their hypothesis, would you? Therefore, the existence of the X-Club says NOTHING about the theory of evolution being fact, fantasy or something in between.
This is just history. The merits of evolutionism being what they are, it's interesting to investigate how it ever became accepted by educated people. Until we see a Histories Mysteries episode explain this, I s'pose we'll have to investigate on our own.
Probably true, I forgot how much influence the "evil empire of evolutionism" has over the media. That's probably why the porn industry can still function in this country because of the influential evolutionists trying to inject evil everywhere they can. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the first amendment.

Why do I care what these folks in the X-club did. You seem to think their influence extends to now even though the club ended before 1900. So, what do you have that shows their continued influence? Perhaps their spirits are haunting the scientists today and causing them to continue to subscribe to a theory with no evidence in its favor?

Seriously, your comment on the merits (or lack thereof) of evolutionism (whatever that is!!!) seems to indicate that you believe there is no evidence for evolution (surprise!, surprise!). It is unfortunate that your stating such does not make it so. Perhaps you should provide some evidence that your statement is correct.
Of course this same scientific method that cannot ferret out the (to you) glaring inadequacies of evidential support for evolution, seems to provide mountains of modern conveniences for you to take advantage of....Medicine, computers, aircraft, space flight...to name a few. What is it that allows scientists to be so intelligent in those areas of science yet makes them so stupid when it comes to biology, geology and cosmology?

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke