Belief in fairytales, apparently, increases with age.
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did I say 'apes turning into humans'? No.
Microscope: of course. No one denies that bacteria exist. The entry point to germ theory is understanding that 'viruses' don't exist. Beyond that it gets a bit difficult.
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Evolution: There are three issues.
Compare this to the number of seconds in the universe -- about 13 billion billion, or 10^19, and then factor in the number of life-forms on the earth -- say 10e30 (there's an upper bound of 10e81, because that's the number of protons in the observable universe).
So, if every life form on the planet mutated every second for the entire age of the universe, you would only have a total of 10e50 mutations -- compare that to the 10e500 possibilities of even a small gene, and you'll see that the probability of evolution happening is... zero.
A lot of evolutionary mechanisms really don't make sense. Consider: a dog will flop on the floor if you drop it, whereas a cat will land on its feet. But how do you go from flopping to a graceful landing? Small changes, such as a slightly more dexterous dog, won't change the death rate, which is what evolution is predicated upon.
Outside of very vague evidence based on bacteria experiments (at Michigan State U) there is nothing that indicates speciation -- unless one just reads an abstract of a paper without reading the methodology.
(etc -- this sort of discussion is better face-to-face).
Microscopes: We can capture bacteria on a light-microscope, which has a resolving power of about 500nm. Viruses require electron microscopes which (I think) can resolve into angstroms (so 0.1nm).
BUT: no one has ever (EVER) seen a virus in a sample of a sick human. EVER. What they do is mix the sample in with monkey kidney cells and anti-biotics etc, and then they observe cell-break-down, and some of the break-down products look like viruses.
Caveat: The 'tobacco mosaic virus' and 'bacteriophages' are slightly odd. The tobacco virus can be seen but not transmitted via experiment. Bacteriophages can be seen -- and they're awesome -- but they're not really viruses, as such -- ie, they're not transmitted from person to person.
Also, there are no studies that demonstrate the transmissibility of respiratory viruses/hiv/measles/polio etc. None. Again, you have to read the methodology, not the abstract/conclusions.
Aerotrain