Precisely. If you believe 'punk/eek', then you also believe everything that's been taught for decades on evolution is wrong. It's an admission that evolution hasn't been a proven fact all this time. Nor would punk/eek be either.
Huh? Everything? No, it's more like changing the last decimal on some physical constant, not deciding that hydrogen is really phlogiston after all. Keep in mind that Gould appears to be a publicity hound, and exagerates the differences between his work and that of his predecessors.
The observed fact of evolution (changes in species over time) is still a fact, just as it was before Darwin's observations and theorizing; Cambrian rocks still have trilobites, Jurasic ones have dinosaurs.; the scientific problem is to account for these observations.