More like "in spite of" Darwinism. None of the discplines you mentioned excelled due to Darwinism. Science excels where critical thinking is employed. That seems to be out of vogue in certain public schools these days.
was just responding to you saying the church didn't hurt science, I didn't start the discussion, sorry.
By "conjectural recapitulations of history" I meant the Philosophy of Evolution, not your question about the history of science. The Philosophy of Evolution is a mental construct that attempts to ascribe scientific merit to itself. It's not working.