"Take Gould for instance. He looked at the fossil record and saw that it didn't conform to Darwin's continuum theory."
Darwin's theory is discrete in nature.
"So he went public and was dismayed that the "fundamentalist" were using his quotes against Darwin."
Because the creationists shamelessly lied by cutting and pasting his words to try to make them mean the opposite of what they really meant. All in the name of the God they claim to follow.
I'm curious why do you insist on using the word "discrete" when you could just as easily used the word "continuious"? And it's a better fit to his words in cited in the article?
Continuous is a good word.