Well here is a source that says it was a contested although fringe is only implied theory In part it says Wegener s ideas were very controversial because he didn t have an explanation for why the continents moved just that there was observational evidence that they had At the time many geologists believed that the features of the Earth were the result of the Earth going through cycles of heating and cooling which causes expansion and contraction of the land masses People who believed this were called the anti mobilists The mobilists were in the opposite camp and supported Wegener s ideas since many of them had seen evidence for continental motion especially in the Alps Although Wegener s continental drift theory was later disproved it was one of the first times that the idea of crustal movement had been introduced to the scientific community and it laid the groundwork for the development of modern plate tectonics As years passed more and more evidence was uncovered to support the idea that the plates move constantly over geologic time So does this suffice