Hello Kim,

You asked, "Has a molecule or any subatomic particle ever actually been seen with any kind of microscope?"

No. We can only identify them through the traces subatomic particles leave on photographic plates in a bubble chamber. They have never been "seen."

More than anything, hypotheses are made that assume atoms exist and when they're proven, they are found to be true. Combinations of hydrogen and oxygen in water are always the same. Nuclear reactors act as we would expect. The photoelectric effect occurs as is hypothesized. They all depend on something like an atom.

You wrote, "Do we just accept the belief that matter is constructed of molecules simply because that is the way we have been taught since childhood?"

Yes, but that's true of most of what we know. We've been told we have a liver, but we've never seen it. We've been told Antarctica exists, but virtually none of us has gone there. There are some conspiracy types who still believe the moon landing was staged. Except for our own experiences in life, everything we know comes from someone telling us something is true and our believing it.

You wrote, "Is it the intention of The Highest Power for us to learn to rely on Spirit instead of what we think is real?"

Let's say that the direction of humankind's evolution in spirit and consciousness is toward greater understanding of and oneness with the Source, fuller feelings of love and compassion, and more feelings of brotherhood as integral parts of our nature. The settings in which we learn those lessons have a reality or substance we can investigate and understand. Probing for the smallest or most fundamental building blocks of matter results in the fundamental theory of at atoms. But it's actually intended to give the world an independent sense. There's a reason for everything.

Love and peace, Craig