Your statement above is nothing like his original quote, which I
present below:
In the Cambrian strata of rocks, vintage about 600 million years
(evolutionists are now dating the beginning of the Cambrian at about
530 million years), are the oldest in which we find most of the major
invertebrate groups. And we find many of them already in an advanced
state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though
they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history.
Needless to say, this appearance of sudden planting has delighted
creationists. The Blind Watchmaker (1996) p.229