Advanced Molecular Dynamics and Chemical Kinetics

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A comprehensive, in-depth presentation of theoretical underpinnings and mathematical techniques

This is the first book of its kind to combine all the theories of molecular reaction dynamics and chemical kinetics in a single source. It provides a sophisticated treatment of the material that functions both as a professional reference and a high-level text for PhD and postdoctoral researchers.

Advanced Molecular Dynamics and Chemical Kinetics offers exceptional, in-depth coverage and includes a complete discussion of the theoretical as well as mathematical presentation of techniques. It features relevant exercises as well as comprehensive coverage of:
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* Proton Transfer Reactions in Solution

This is the ideal reference for seasoned professionals in molecular reaction dynamics as well as for younger researchers who may want to enter the field or simply wish to learn more about it.

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Gert D. Billing and Kurt V. Mikkelsen

Introduction to Molecular Dynamics and Chemical Kinetics and Advanced Molecular Dynamics and Chemical Kinetics (2 vol.)

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The first text to cover both molecular reaction dynamics and chemical kinetics and their respective theories in a single source. After introductory material, the monograph goes on to cover interaction potentials; relative motion and the collisional approach for chemical reaction in the gas phase; partition functions; transition state theory; unimolecualr reactions; molecular reactions calculations; non-adiabatic transitions; surface kinetics; chemical reactions in solution; energetic changes in solvating a molecule; transition state theory in solution; models for diffusion; Kramers' theory of viscosity of solvent in chemical reactions; and electronic transfer reactions in solution. Also includes problems and solved exercises.

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The following review is about the book rather than whether or not I believe in Intelligent Design.

A biased history of intelligent design in the pro-ID direction

Be a "fly on the wall"

Doubts About Woodward's Optimism

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Doubts about Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design
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The Intelligent Design Movement is making both social and scientific inroads into the established ''religion'' of our culture--scientific naturalism. At its core is a group of professionals and academics who are skeptical of Darwinian macroevolution. The ''Darwinian paradigm crisis'' that is emerging is of critical importance because it raises questions about the origins of life and probes the deepest levels of what it means to be human. Doubts about Darwin presents a historical study of the rapid emergence of this movement by tracing key events, personalities, and sociocultural factors. Author Thomas Woodward poses the crucial question: How do scientists (and the public at large) come to be persuaded that they are in possession of solid scientific knowledge, and what effect do their ''stories'' have on their beliefs?

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The following review is about the book rather than whether or not I believe in Intelligent Design........2007-07-13

I am tired of reading reviews that rate the book simply based upon the reviewers bias whether it be pro-evolution or against. For that reason, I have found it necessary to write a review that actually discusses the contents of the book.

Doubts was originally Thomas Woodward's doctoral thesis which was then turned into a book. He seeks to explain the origins of the ID movement. He makes it clear that one of his main goals is to show that ID is based on sound scientific data rather than an attempt to repackage creationism, as it is often accused. I picked up this book because I was hoping for a unbiased approach to ID. I was hoping to first read a book without any bias that could set the stage for future study. Unfortunately, that is not what I found in Doubts. It's quite possible that I may never find a book of this nature with such a polarizing topic as evolution.

I will first tell the things that I like about Doubts. Although I believe that evolution should be taught, I do have a number of doubts regarding it. There are a lot of issues that have not yet been settled in my mind regarding its truthfulness. I agree with the ID people in that there doesn't seem to be enough transitional fossils. I can understand how a wolf and a dog might be related, or even a dog and a cat, but I find it difficult to relate an animal with a fully-functioning digestive system with an animal like an earthworm. Doubts succeeded in presenting even more such issues. In truth, Doubts did not present any issues, but rather it spoke of the issues brought forth by others such as Behe, Johnson, and Denton (to name but a few). I definitely have a lot of questions that beg to be answered by the Darwinists.

Doubts also succeeded in bringing to light the dogmatic nature displayed by some of the Darwinists. It is unfortunate, but clearly evident, that some scientists use Darwinism as a method of justifying their atheism. If scientists forward a view/theory based not on empirical evidence but rather upon philosophical predilection, then they are guilty of the same dogmatism they decry in the creationists. When scientists start pushing atheism, they have left the realm of science and entered into the realm of religion. Science is ill-equipped at dealing with the existence or non-existence of deity. Previously, I was under the impression that scientists generally observed this delineation, but Doubts has caused me to question whether science is doing a good enough job of minding its own business.

Lastly, Doubts succeeds in pointing out the key issue of this whole debate. Ultimately, the question is the axiom of naturalism held by science. Naturalism requires that science only investigate natural cause and effect. Naturalism precludes science from making theories that involve deity, for deity lies outside of this natural sphere. The ID movement claims that naturalism impedes science and that non-naturalist theories should be allowed. Evolution finds this to be ridiculous. But ultimately, that is the issue at stake.

Having given my positive views of Doubts, I ultimately feel that it is a poor book. Since it was adapted from a doctoral dissertation, it suffers from the thick over-inflated writing style that is so common in the scientific community. Things that could have been stated in a few simple words are expressed in a long string of obfuscated gibberish. The author finds it necessary to constantly explain the value of analogy and various other methods of rhetoric ad nauseum.

Poor writing is excusable, especially in a scholarly work, but blatant bias is not excusable. Woodward claims to be writing an unbiased history of ID, but one needs not dig too deep to find his strong pro-ID bias. Again and again I was approached with examples of Woodward presenting rebuttals by the ID movement while failing to give the Darwinists the same opportunity. Successes of ID were inflated with superlatives while their failures were glazed over as quickly as possible as if one of his doctoral had required he include their mention. I can never trust a work that claims to be unbiased when they can admit no fault with one side, yet that is what is presented in Doubts.

He also fails to effectively defend his primary thesis, that ID is a scientific movement rather than a theistic movement. Woodward goes out of his way to point out ways in which ID uses empirical evidence for their anti-evolutionary stance. Nevertheless, he fails to point out the dichotomy induced by such things as the wedge theory. The wedge theory is where Stephen Johnson (one of the founders of ID) states out-right that the long-term goal of ID is to get theistic principles taught in schools and universities. Again and again, through Woodward's own representation of the facts it feels that the ID movement is simply trying to conceal a strong theistic motive under the shroud of empirical validity. I agree with the judge of the Dover case, when he ruled that ID is simply a thin-veiled attempt at bringing God back into science.

Once again, I should note that I believe in Intelligent Design in a theistic sense. I believe that God created the universe and that God's hand is in the evolution and continued existence of this world. Nevertheless, I believe that science has no business dabbling in non-naturalistic explanations to natural phenomenon. Such explorations provide us with nothing.

Therefore, I do not recommend this book. If you want to get the ID view, read a book by the founders of ID. Read one of the books that are unabashedly biased, rather than a book that tries to hide its bias. I have no problem with a book being biased. Any book trying to put forth a particular argument is going to be, by necessity, heavily laden with bias. Rather than read this book, read Darwin on Trial or Of Pandas and People. Doubts does little more than explain the contents of those books.

A biased history of intelligent design in the pro-ID direction.......2007-05-07

Are intelligent design proponents disinterested pursuers of the truth, honestly persuaded that the mainstream theory of evolution has serious problems? Or are they closet theocrats, trying to sneak a religious theory into the schools by covering it with a scientific veneer? Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross argue for the latter in Creationism's Trojan Horse, while Woodward presents the former view.

Woodward is very interested in the rhetoric of science and how this affects its pursuits. However we may see science as going after truth, in practice it is done by human beings in a social setting, and persuading one's fellow scientists can involve more than showing them the evidence.

And Woodward is not above using rhetoric for his own ends, with his word choices frequently betraying his pro-ID bias. Teaching Darwinian evolution in schools is always "dogmatic," intelligent design is treated as "heresy", and critics of ID "scoff" at it. On the other side, the criticism of evolution by ID proponents is frequently "withering". However, Forrest and Gross are similarly biased in the other direction, so we'll let this go.

Woodward presents the genesis and growth of a movement, starting with Michael Denton's Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, which inspires Philip Johnson and Michael Behe into skepticism about evolution. Then Johnson writes Darwin on Trial, which brings in people like Dembski, Meyer, and others. And of course Behe writes his own book, Darwin's Black Box, which brought in the key ID concept of irreducible complexity, to go with ID's only other key concept so far, Dembski's design inference. The second-hand coverage is less than satisfying, and I think my time might well have been better spent reading primary sources, like Denton or Johnson, rather than this retelling.

Of the two books, Woodward presents the better-written and better-organized story. That doesn't mean that it's true, though. What becomes interesting is what he leaves out. There's no mention of the Discovery Institute's "Wedge Document," which clearly states that the goal of undermining evolution is to restore Christianity as an influential force in society and government. And Woodward vehemently denies that creationism and ID have anything in common, when it's now known that the very first ID book, Of Pandas and People, did a sloppy cut-and-paste to remove every mention of creationism and replace it with intelligent design - at exactly the same time that the Supreme Court decided that creationism could not be taught in schools. He also refers to the Kansas state standards of 1999 simply as "deemphasizing the teaching of macroevolution" without bothering to mention that they were co-authored by the president of the Creation Science Association, who believes in the six-day-creation story of the Bible.

What is important in the end, though, is not motivations but the truth. Mainstream evolutionary biologists must address any legitimate scientific issues that ID proponents bring forth, which they have done. (So far, at least in the mainstream view, none have held up to close scrutiny. Irreducible complexity was dealt satisfactorily with by mainstream biologists over 80 years ago, and the design inference is too context-dependent to be meaningful.) Meanwhile, it would be nice if the IDers would stick to the world of science until their hypotheses have greater support. As Eugenie Scott of the pro-evolution NCSE notes, the proper process for a theory to make its way into the schools is for the proponents of the theory to publish scientific works and argue them out with fellow scientists, not, as ID has done, make their very first publication (Of Pandas and People, as mentioned above) a high school textbook. That leads to a not unreasonable suspicion that the goals of the ID movement are not primarily scientific.

Woodward sees a growing ID movement (more rhetoric: he refers to an "explosion" of interest in ID, by which he means that those interested grew from a handful of scientists to a couple dozen). That remains to be seen. As even the "Wedge Document" notes, the bedrock of ID must be scientific publications, and that is where ID has been seriously lacking so far, with only a handful of scientific papers to its name so far, and that's with a generous reckoning. Meanwhile, in the political arena, ID has seen numerous setbacks, from Judge Jones's decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case that ID is not science (hailed by evolution supporters and derided by ID supporters, of course) to the loss of supporters in the Kansas state school board that led to the evolution-friendly standards recently being adopted. Meanwhile, the ID movement has retreated from wanting to be taught in schools (as indicated by the Pandas textbook) to wanting to "teach the controversy" to wanting to "discuss the problems."

Whatever one's opinion, though, it's clear that the controversy isn't going away any time soon. It remains to be seen, though, just what form the controversy will take. However, to best follow the controversy, read the relevant works themselves rather than books like these, which stand aside and observe the controversy.

Be a "fly on the wall".......2007-01-28

This is a fascinating look at the history of intelligent design. Woodward does a marvelous job providing insights into the ID movement and its major players. Along the way, we are invited to be a "fly on the wall" as we observe the struggles and successes of such notable figures as Phillip Johnson, Michael Behe, and William Demski. This is simply a wonderful and enlightening read!

Doubts About Woodward's Optimism.......2006-12-01

Professor Thomas Woodward, Ph.D. teaches systematic theology, communications, and the history of science at Trinity College, Florida. Woodward's 2001 doctoral dissertation concerned the history of the Intelligent Design (hereafter, ID) movement, and in 2003 Baker Books (Grand Rapids, Michigan) published a reader-friendly revision of it entitled Doubts About Darwin (hereafter, Doubts). Subtitled A History of Intelligent Design, the book is, as a reviewer for Christianity Today observed, focused less on recording an unabridged history of ID "and more on the rhetoric of the movement."

Professor Woodward's several academic specialties and his long-term personal relationships with a number of key figures in the ID movement make him uniquely qualified to serve as a chronicler of the phenomenon. Indeed, Dr. Woodward's Doubts offers the same kind of eyewitness account of the birth and development of the modern ID movement as Dr. Luke's Acts did of nascent Christianity. However, Woodward's insider's perspective is not entirely without its drawbacks; at times Doubts' tone reads less like a dispassionate report and more like an advocate's polemic, calling into question the author's objectivity. Regrettably, that is not the book's most important deficit. Conspicuously absent from Doubts is the all-important role sin--i.e., humanity's willful rebellion against the lordship of the Intelligent Designer--has played and will continue to play in preventing mainstream biology from returning to a biblical paradigm of nature.

Regrettably, Doubts leaves the reader with the false impression that the ID movement is currently a tropical depression destined to become a category five hurricane, an unstoppable ideological force with the potential to level any and all competing theories in its path. Woodward seems certain that eventually, ID theory must prevail, since Neo-Darwinism has a fatal "reality" problem (200). His optimism, though admirable, is mysterious given the numerous troubling anecdotes and outcomes that have attended the modern ID movement since its infancy. Woodward himself observes that

The debaters are contending over the fundamental cultural story of humankind, and those who succeed at crafting and telling the most convincing story of origins hold in their hands supreme cultural authority. If any group, religious or scientific, gains the authority to present its own story as uniquely true and to label other stories as mythological, this group functions as the high priesthood of our time. (31)

If God-fearing priests persecuted Amos, the Apostle Paul, Martin Luther, and countless others, it seems extremely unlikely that the God-forsaking priests of secularism will ever willingly surrender their cultural authority. The idea that science is an insular, self-correcting discipline concerned only with the facts is also beset by a major "reality problem," namely the reality of sin.

The Bible makes plain empirical evidence for an Intelligent Designer has always been visible (Ps. 19:1-2; Rom. 1:20), but seeing that evidence requires eyes that are willing to see (cf. Jn. 12:37). Humans have resisted the lordship of the Intelligent Designer since the Fall in the Garden, which is why there will be no natural explanation too intellectually gymnastic for naturalists determined to retain the illusion that they are the lords of the earth. ID theory has and will continue to bring great comfort to those who are willing to submit to the truth, but Jesus warned that those who do evil prefer falsehood over truth (Jn. 3:19-20).

Now we need a logic of ID and Evolution..........2006-01-09

The main reason I enjoyed this book was because of the approach. As I continue to read books about Intelligent Design and Evolution, I am most impressed with those that examine the unexamined. The fact that the theory of Evolution has a history, logic, rhetoric, and worlview is so important to remember. Unless Evolution is revelation it should not be beyond question, doubts, and refutation where it is proven false. This book shows how both ID and Evolution believers speak about their theories. It is a solid reflection on an unconsidered issue. Now I await the book that examines the logic (or lack thereof) in the ID and Evolution movements.

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