is there any proof of microscopic life? if so what is it?

Answer 1

the proof is in watching it. Typically, with a microscope. The first person to do this was the Dutchman, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, back in the 17th century.

or you can do what Pasteur did back then, late 19th century, when most people believed that there could be "spontaneous generation" of life, for example in rotting food (when of course it is the development of microscopic life, that causes food to rot)

do the following: take some food, say a small piece of raw meat. Cut it in two pieces. Find two jars that can be closed in a very airtight manner, and that can resist heat. Put a piece of meat in each jar. Hold one jar in a pot of boiling water for maybe 10 minutes, and let its lid in the boiling water. Take it out, immediately close it with that lid. As for the other jar, simply close it.

leave both jars at room temperature, close to each other (so they have the same light, etc.) for a couple of days.

if you've done your work properly, you should have killed most / all of the microscopic life in the first jar, so the meat in it should take much longer to go bad.

this will be indirect proof of miscroscopic life


It is interesting to note that, while Leeuwenhoek thought that the richness of microscopic life was one more proof of the greatness of the Creator, when Creationism arrived, about 200 years later, Creationists decided, God know why, that the existence of a miscroscopic life somehow endangered their views.

Answer 2

Yes. One can look through a microscope and see it. Pictures have been taken of it. Want proof? You're in the right place. Just search for it throughout the internet.

Answer 3

Well looking at it down a microscope is pretty good proof.

How do you think we catch diseases like the common cold and infections?... I don't remember seeing any 3-feet wide viruses blundering up people's noses or gigantic bacteria stalking people down the street... so either they have some sort of magic invisibilty cloak or (shock horror!) they're too small to see with the naked eye... in other words MICROSCOPIC

Answer 4

Microscopic life was found in a meteorite that came from Mars. It shows evidence of bacteria and other factors of life.

Answer 5

take a sample of rainwater and view it through a microscope..

you will be surprise if not weirded out

Answer 6

Are you talking about on other planets and space?

There is no conclusive proof but it seems highly likely that the universe is simply teeming with life in all its forms.

Answer 7

YES

THE MICROSCOPE PROVES IT