I think the misconception here is in separating evolution from different sciences, as if it is some kind of vampire sucking its life from them while contributing nothing itself.
The geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975) said, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." By that time, the theory of evolution was firmly established through one confirming discovery after another, in every single biological discipline from anthropology, through molecular biology and paleontology (filling in the “missing” intermediate forms of life, for example), to zoology.
There is always a wealth of creative arguments among scientists about technical details to be resolved, but the basic framework of evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. It is as solidly based as the heliocentric theory of our planetary universe, because there exists no meaningful falsifiable evidence to contradict it. If the theory of evolution turns out to be wrong, a very unlikely proposition, it could only be replaced by another and better scientific theory—not by spurious special pleadings for which no scientific evidence exists.
you cannot prove something wrong if it's never been proven right to begin with.
I haven't seen any scientific evidence that proves creationism to be right, but I can explain why the scientific claims of its leaders are wrong.
There is some question as to whether or not evolutionary theories are actually beneficial to progress in other fields
Only in the minds of creationists.
if the theories that we know today that have been proven undoubtedly wrong in the past half century had never existed then people would had never been taught them, possibly wasting decades of their lives on the wrong paths.
Which major false theories are these, that had scientists so bamboozled in the last 50 years that scientific progress was held up by decades?
