This is hand waving. Statistical mathematics has long told us what kind of behavior would be expected out of Darwinism and it is not the behavior we see from geological records. The tree of life fairly burgeons at the complex end. Darwinism projects far more trouble than success at that end, such as to expect it to be an overall losing game.
No, evolution and the geologic record support each other. Radiometric dating further supports the fossil record. As I’m sure you know, there is a theory of evolution which has made great strides in filling in the why of the nineteenth century discussion of biology. Darwinism is a pejorative applied the evolutionary theory which attempts to color modern science with the ambiguity and falsehoods of the past. The questions have been answered and scientists are looking at new questions.