shuck: "I believe what the author is saying is that medical or agricultural science would still be in the dark ages if not for the theory of evolution. That of course is the truth."
This must be the same line of reasoning that got us to the doctrine of evolution in the first place.
Scientific method was founded long, long before the theory of evolution came to be widely accepted. The same is true of biological science. To say that biological sciences hinge on the concept of macro-evolution is perposterous.
What the heck is macro-evolution?