Of course - it happens over hundreds of thousands of years - not timescales we can usefully observe. But we can, and have found the evidence in the fossil record just as we have done for transitional forms.
You must be winding me up, right ...
Pls don't be sad, Dan - I never meant to upset you, or anyone; not even Ray ! I am fully in support of your first post as well, wishing everyone some seasonal goodwill, so let's agree that we can't agree, and not worry about it any more ?! :)
PS...
Yes, never my intention to mock anyone for their beliefs. But poor old Ray brings it on himself, doubled down on what he said for years afterwards, and then when someone showed him what an actual uncultivated wild banana looks and tastes like he...