Of course, having begun to question Genesis, and to move towards postulating an evolutionary vehicle powered by natural selection, Darwin would naturally have then looked at his records in that new light - just as the Baconian model would have him do. Thus it appears that the Baconian procedure describes, essentially in broad approximation, what actually seems to have occurred in one of the most important pieces of scientific investigation ever accomplished. That is not say that Bacon is 'right' and that Popper is 'wrong' but that neither view of scientific epistemology deserves to be banished from our minds. It is an open possibility that yet other Scientific Methods may come to be identified in the future. If we look at the history of ideas then there is no good ground for supposing that we ever reach the 'last word'.
Real life is complicated.
Seeing life steady and seeing life whole cannot, I suggest, be accomplished simultaneously.