Evidence isn't as black and white as you portray it here. Had Darwin been reading a book by Cuvier, he would have applied a catastrophist interpretation to the geological formations he saw.
But this is not the case. Darwin could have read a book by Cuvier and then wondered whether Cuvier was right or wrong. A scientist reading a book written by another scientist is not like a fundamentalist reading the Bible.
I'll bet you ten Canadian dollars that Darwin
did read Cuvier's books.
But we are getting far off-topic so we'll have to stop here (All I wanted originally was some additional information on a minor detail). If anyone wants to continue this then they can start a topic.
Unfortunately, the original poster doesn't seem to want to continue the argument in his original post. So we might as well use this thread to chat about the life of Charles Darwin. If the original poster comes back, then we might get back to the actual topic of this thread.