Frustrating to having a conversation about it. I ask about the context and meaning of part of it that seemed ambigous. Since you provided the quote, it seemed reasonable that you might have more information about the background and surrounding context that would help clarify it. You responded that I would have to "go ask Dawrin". Since he's dead, that's obviously going to be impossible so it's pretty much the rhetorical equivalent of flipping the bird and walking away.
The quote was a direct statement from Darwin, from The Origin of Species. It is what it is. Do you think I have some privileged insight into the workings of his mind?
I take the statement at face value. Thus it seems to me Darwin was allowing that his proposed evolution theory did not have support from the geological record, at least at the time of writing. Do you read the statement another way?