"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message

"Schizoid Man" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message

No, Evolution will always be a theory. Observable changes over time
can be facts.

The first electron microscopes appeared in the late 70s and early
80s that enabled us to see atoms for the first time. I guess that
means that before we actually 'observed' them, the existence of
atoms was a theory too? You need to take a science class again, Arny.

**I hate to burst your bubble with a random act of pedantry,

Nicely said, Trevor!

but electron microscopes cannot 'see' atoms. About the best they can
manage is to 'see' are some of the larger molecules.

Agreed.

Furthermore as I showed in another post, the Electron Microscope was
invented in the late 1930s, about a half a century earlier than Schizoid Boy
thinks it was.

Atoms can only be 'seen' by a scanning-tunnelling microscope (so far).
Invented by
IBM, as I recall, who rearranged a few dozen atoms to form the company
logo.

Again agreed that the scanning-tunnelling microscope can view and manipulate
atoms.

http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/STM/text.html

"The same principle was later used in the scanning tunneling microscope. The
remaining barrier to the development of that instrument was the need for
more adequate vibration isolation, in order to permit stable positioning of
the tip above the surface. This difficult problem in mechanical design was
surmounted through the work of Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, IBM Research
Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, who in 1986 shared in the Nobel Prize in
Physics for their discovery of atomic resolution in scanning tunneling
microscopy. In their announcement of the award, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences recognized the pioneering studies of Russell Young."