he was met with widespread skepticism  from the geological community.

他遭到了地質界的普遍懷疑。

Many geologists were adamantly opposed to  Wegener's theory, not because of sound scientific  

許多地質學家堅決反對韋格納的理論，不是因為科學上有合理的

counterarguments, but because it went against the  then-accepted beliefs about stationary continents.

反駁，而是因為它違背了當時公認的關於靜止大陸的信念。

This dismissal persisted despite  Wegener's substantial evidence,  

儘管韋格納有大量證據，

and the theory was not widely accepted until the  concept of plate tectonics emerged in the 1960s.

但這種駁斥仍然存在，直到 20 世紀 60 年代板塊構造概念出現，理論才被廣泛接受。