About microscopes

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Whatever your thoughts about the validity of Darwin's argument, one of the factors to keep before your mind is the fact that he formulated his thoughts using a microscope that was primitive by today's standards. The electron microscopes developed in the 1950s and 1960s allowed scientists to see the world of microbiology and to begin to explore the single cell.

Darwin thought the cell was an undifferentiated blob of protoplasm. He did not know what he did not know. Today we know the cell is a stunningly complex world unto itself, a jaw-dropping marvel. So in exploring the validity of Darwin's contribution to science it is well to keep in mind his ignorance of biology in 1859.

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