You cant see an atom through a microscope. Its too small and a microscope cant enlarge it enough to see it. You are useing your faith in science to believe in the existance of the atom. As I said before be consistant. If a person cant use faith to believe in religion than you cant use it to believe in science. And dont give me any more garbage about seeing an atom bud.
Writing with atoms
In 1981, Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory invented the scanning tunneling microscope. This device, easily one of the most elegant and unanticipated inventions of the century, allowed imaging of individual atoms, and won Binning and Rohrer the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1986.
In 1985, Binning and Christoph Gerber of IBM Zurich, along with Calvin Quate of Stanford, invented the atomic force microscope. This allowed imaging nonconductive matter such as living cells to molecular (although not currently atomic) resolution.
Since then, every year has seen new inventions in the rapidly growing field of scanning probe microscopes. They're now imaging bits on magnetic surfaces, measuring temperature at microscopic sites, and monitoring the progress of chemical reactions.
Recently, IBM San Jose used a scanning tunneling microscope to, in Feynman's words, put the atom right where the chemist says. http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Briefing3.html
