Tellurite Glasses Handbook: Physical Properties and Data

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Non-crystalline solid tellurite glasses continue to intrigue both academic and industry researchers not only because of their many technical applications, but also because of a fundamental interest in understanding their microscopic mechanisms. Tellurite Glasses Handbook: Physical Properties and Data is the first and only comprehensive source of physical constants and properties of these unique, non-crystalline solids. The author has collected rigid data from experiments conducted over the last 50 years and presents here their elastic, anelastic, optical, electrical, and thermal properties. He also provides details of the experimental techniques, explores applications, and suggests directions of future research. The interference and independence of physical processes occurring simultaneously are key problems in material science. With the Tellurite Glasses Handbook, researchers can begin to understand these physical processes, overcome current technological problems, and open up a new area of glass science: the Physics of Non-Crystalline Solids

Handbook of Fiber Chemistry, Third Edition (International Fiber Science and Technology)

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The Handbook of Fiber Chemistry, Third Edition provides complete coverage of scientific and technological principles for all major natural and synthetic fibers. Incorporating new scientific techniques, instruments, characterization, and processing methods, the book features important technological advances from the past decade, particularly in fiber production and novel applications. It contains the latest data and insight into the chemistry and structural properties made possible by these advances. Authored by leading experts in the field of fiber science, most chapters in this third edition of a bestseller are either new or extensively updated. Chapters on synthetic fibers detail their formation from monomers, while those on natural fibers cover extraction and purification methods. Each chapter encompasses definitions, morphology, and fine structure; properties, testing, processing methods, and equipment; and the conversion into marketable products. Taking into account the recent expansion and diversification of markets for various fibers, this book also offers a solid foundation in the principles used for developing new fibers, including biologically and electronically active fibers. The Handbook of Fiber Chemistry, Third Edition offers a better understanding of the structure-property relationships of fibers and fiber-related phenomena. It is an ideal volume for scientists, technologists, and engineers working to develop novel and innovative products and technologies using natural and synthetic fibers.

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As a new and exciting field of interdisciplinary macromolecular science and engineering, polymeric materials will have a profound presence in 21st century chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, manufacturing, infrastructure, electronic, optical and information technologies. The origin of this field derived from an area of polymer science and engineering encompassing plastic technologies. The field is rapidly expanding to incorporate new interdisciplinary research areas such as biomaterials, macromolecular biology, novel macromolecular structures, environmental macromolecular science and engineering, innovative and nano-fabrications of products, and is translating discoveries into technologies.

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In Agents Under Fire, Menuge defends a robust notion of agency and intentionaility against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives, showing the interconnections between the philosophy of mind, theology, and Intelligent Design.

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Assault on Scientific Materialism.......2007-09-10

Menuge mounts a sophisticated philosophical argument against the philosophical underpinnings of Darwinism, scientific materialism. Menuge believes that Darwinism is living on the borrowed time of Enlightenment thinking which sees material as all that is and matters.

To do this he advances that scientific materialism cannot sustain itself coherently by seeing design as merely illusionary, not fully embracing either agency or intentionality, both necessary to understand the basic scientific method of hypothesis and challenging theories by planned experimentation and rationalization.

Drawing and engaging with the popular Darwinisist reductionist philosophies, Menuge takes on Strong and Weak Agent Reductionism, finding both of them incapable of logical defenses for both scientific investigation and mental processes that we humans assume to be real so that science can advance.

This is sophisticated philosophy, so those as this reader that do not regularly engage in its vocab find the sledding rugged finding such terms as "agency, synchronic, diachronic, epipheneomenalism, etc." However, the interested reader will find Menuge's ability to define and clarify these as he goes along with useful, common illustrative examples to aid.

A weak, inappropriate response is that this damages science, allowing religion to enter. This is the false move that Menuge identifies, showing an illogical move from scientific materialism to scientific attitude. He states: "scientific materialism is neither an implication nor presupposition of doing science." Both forms of reductionism he finds unable to maintain the rationality of science, having a unsupported bias against the nonmaterial.

He champions well a view of Intelligent Design that is coherent and upholds the scientific attitude and method without the false, illogical attachment to scientific materialism. We all have been highly suspect not of science, but of the philosophical basis of scientific materialism.

A book that must be dealt with by the Darwinists, so this reviewer will wait to see that response and Menuge and others reply.

A Devastating Critique of Philosophical Naturalism.......2007-02-04

I can see why Michael Ruse, in his forward to the book, did himself a great service by 1. reading it himself and 2. being wise enough to not venture a pre-emptive rebuttal attempt. In fact, I accept his invitation to read this astonishing and influential book. I found it to be direct, and well written, Angus Menuge deftly illustrating concepts well through his unique flair and subtle wit. First, a devastating blow to those who don't think anything is designed at all (Strong Agent Reductionism)...One particular gem of fact that leapt out at me was on page 15 of the preface... "If nothing is actually designed, then design is an illegitimate concept."..."It then becomes a serious problem how the intentional stance which attributes goals and designs to an agent, can be so successful in interpreting and explaining the scientist's own behavior in constructing theories and in (as we all say) designing theories". and another...same page... "....the very notion of explanation employed by the scientific materialist assumes the existence of agent, that is, beings capable of directing their behavior on the basis of representations of states of affairs, such as hypotheses, predictions, plans and designs" "Understanding therefore, requires intentionality" Comments mine here. >> And you guessed it! Intentionality implies..purpose..and purpose implies ....design. Here's another gem, sure to agitate the most committed materialist...from page 17 of the preface... "..design and intentionality are legitimate, but nonnatural categories. Given the fact that these categories are explanatory in the human case, it is dogmatic to declare a priori that they must fail in alleged cases of alient, superhuman, or divine design or intentionality. Following the recent work of Del Ratzsch, I argue that common arguments against invoking the nonnatural or supernatural in science are mistaken and rest, in many cases, on unexamined prejudices that derive their plausibility from an uconscious identification of empirical science with materialistic science." "If humans really do have goals, as the rationality of science presupposes, then it is surely possible that other agents have goals and that we may sometimes discover empirical evidence of their activity." Moving along now, to Chapter Three, pg.82, we find a logical argument to support the above stated, that " P1.If something has a purpose, then it is designed P2.Intentionality has the purpose of guiding behavior. P3.So intentionality is designed via P1 & P2 P4.Clearly, our intentionality is not designed by us, although it does enable us to convey our own designs. P5.Thus, our intentionality is the result of prior design via P3 & P4 P6.If (as Fodor reminds us) something is designed, then it is the product of intentionality P7.So, our intentionality is the product of prior intentionality via P5 & P6. Moving along to Chapter Four, pg.103, begins a point by point (5 points) logical rape of the co-optation argument that seeks to tear down the mountain of evidence for design in the bacterial flagellum. This alone is worth getting the book. and further, in Chapter Seven, pg.174 "But if human agents result in undeniably designed effects, it is dogmatic to exclude the possibility that other kinds of agencies are capable of doing the same thing" The above statement is so elegantly put...Beautiful... Moving on to a more well known contemporary topic in Chapter Eight, beginning on page 196, Menuge then does a take no prisoners attack and waste'm all demolition of some of the popular evolution myths, though mostly based on well know material also brought out in Well's "Icons of Evolution".. A gem here, page 196 "Scientists should not be tied to a dogmatic starting point, such as Dobzhansky's maxim that "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution". Rather they should assert that, "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evidence." Menuge then goes for the kill, taking apart some of the well known evolution myths and hoaxes meant to spread disinformation to the public, while keeping in line with scientist's presuppositional materialist perspectives (also known as methodological naturalism, scientism, et etc) 1. The 1953 Miller-Urey experiment, that was made under assumptions that the early earth had no oxygen, but since then, new evidence has shown that early earth did indeed have oxygen..thus, the Miller Urey experiment was "designed" or "manipulated" (though ignorantly) in a way that made the experiment appear to work, but only if the early earth did not have oxygen. Since the experiment worked..therefore (it was assumed), the early earth did not have oxygen! I never thought of these ambitious scientists as religious before, but I must say that it appears they were taking a great step of faith to expect anyone to believe their conclusions 50 years later. Then "Darwin's Tree of Life" is shown to be rootless, merely a vibrantly growing bush with no evidence to support it from the fossil record. In fact, the fossil record indicates a much different story... geologically and morphologically sudden appearances, not gradualism. Then, the "homologuous limbs" idea is put in it's grave (again), not to forget the Haeckel draws of embryonic development, long ago found to be faked. From pg.198 "Scientists of that time were not eager to check out Haeckel's work, so the bio-genetic law was "deduced from evolutionary theory rather than inferred from the evidence". Even today, biology textbooks continue to teach it. Next debunking was done on the Archaeopteryx, and then the Archaeoraptor (found to have "a dinosaur tail glued to the body of a primitive bird"). That bird must have flown like a lead balloon. :) Next debunking was on the bacteria and insect resistance adaptation evolution issue... already long known to produce adaptations without producing a new species. Even with the insects in question, fruit flys, an additional pair of wings resulted, but there were no muscles for the wings, which means it would have been a survival deficiency(like most mutations). I wish Menuge would have expounded more on debunking the evolutionist/materialist perspective of human evolution. From page 199 "Even more dogmatic, and an apt example of Bacon's idols of the theater, are the accounts of human evolution offer by paleoanthropologists. Here it becomes obvious that certain stories are appealing for ideological reasons and that, because fossils are not self-interpreting, they must be artistically placed into preexisting narrative structures" and a final quote..pg.199 "One can hear Winston Churchill as a biologist: "Never in the field of science have so many based so much on so little" (comment mine>> The above, undoubtably referring to those dogmatic evolutionists with their religiously fervent adherence to philosophical materialism) Well I have only mentioned small morsels of the raw and effective dismantling of materialism/scientism/philosophical materialism that Menuge presents in his unique and to-the-point manner. I highly reccomend this book.. and like Michael Ruse, I reccomend it be read by those who are critics of design.

Agency Defended Through Careful, Penetrating Analysis.......2006-06-16

Dr. Menuge has written an extremely important underappreciated book providing a crucial link between the emerging scientific theory of intelligent design and the mind. This book exists as something of a well-kept secret. But many readers interested both in the philosophy of mind and the continuing Darwin vs. design debate will find this book to be a significant intellectual achievement.

Menuge carefully and logically explains how reductionist, materialistic accounts of rationality, concepts and intentional states are intellectually incoherent and unsatisfying. He deftly explain how intelligent agency best explains reason and rationality. Menuge thereby defends the very idea of common sense. He persuasively responds to the arguments of Dennett, Dawkins, Churchland, and others.

An impressive conceptual defense of biochemist Michael Behe's design argument of irreducible complexity is provided by Menuge. From there, Menuge ably argues that the concept of irreducible complexity is evident is manifest through rational thought processes.

Many significant insights are provided along the way in Menuge's book. His analysis of the materialist "appearance of design" argument is particularly remarkable.

The writing is methodical, but it is often quite dense. There is some complicated terminology and concepts imbedded in the text, but careful attention will allow a reader to follow and benefit from reading.

Hopefully, more attention will be paid to the mind and mind-body issues related to the Darwin vs. design debate in the years to come. Menuge has made a worthy contribution to an important topic.

A comprehensive study in intelligent design and philosophy of mind.......2006-06-15

Agents Under Fire defends a robust notion of intelligent agency and intentionality against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives. Angus Menuge thus demonstrates the interconnection between philosophy of mind and intelligent design.

Firstly, Menuge analyzes intelligent agents to see what they do when they produce designs. For example, Menuge observes that intelligent agents "exhibit intentionality" with "reasons for action" which are "reasons for the individual to do" that action. (pg. 27)

Menuge later tackles Behe's irreducible complexity arguments by arguing that they challenge reductionism in biology. In particular Menuge tackles head-on the objection that irreducible complexity can be produced via exaptation (i.e., co-option). Menuge finds five problems that co-optational-based accounts of the origin of irreducible complexity cannot overcome:

"For a working flagellum to be built by exaptation, the five following conditions would all have to be met:
"C1: Availability. Among the parts available for recruitment to form the flagellum, there would need to be ones capable of performing the highly specialized tasks of paddle, rotor, and motor, even though all of these items serve some other function or no function.
"C2: Synchronization. The availability of these parts would have to be synchronized so that at some point, either individually or in combination, they are all available at the same time.
"C3: Localization. The selected parts must all be made available at the same `construction site,' perhaps not simultaneously but certainly at the time they are needed.
"C4: Coordination. The parts must be coordinated in just the right way: even if all of the parts of a flagellum are available at the right time, it is clear that the majority of ways of assembling them will be non-functional or irrelevant.
"C5: Interface compatibility. The parts must be mutually compatible, that is, `well-matched' and capable of properly `interacting': even if a paddle, rotor, and motor are put together in the right order, they also need to interface correctly." (pg. 104-105)

Menuge also forays into Darwinian explanations for the origin of mind. According to Menuge, the Darwinian psychology produced by Dawkins, Dennett, and Pinker is unable to explain the integration, unity, direction, and reliability of rational thought. For example, "if it is assumed that the human brain evolved gradually from an ape's brain, then the vastly superior psychological ability of the former would require a long and gradual series of changes resulting in a much more complex brain." (pg. 135) But since "at the anatomical level, human brains are very much like ape brains" Menuge argues that "`relatively small alterations of brain structure must have produced very large behavioral discontinuities in the transition from the ancestral apes to us.'" (pg. 135, quoting Fodor) Menuge further concludes that "[i]f that is the case, cognitive capacities are not Darwinian adaptations that developed gradually" but are either "remarkable flukes of nature, by-products of changes that were selected for other reasons" or, as Menuge believes, they "require some nonnatural explanation." (pg. 135)

Drawing on his experience as both a philosopher and computer scientist, Menuge shows the reader that the materialist's attempts to rid science of all commitment to teleology can only result in incoherence. Instead Menuge presents his own unique argument for the legitimacy of intelligent design.

well.........2005-12-22

finally.. a complete challenge to evolutionary naturalism and one i *think* it'll find extremely hard to refute (as michael ruse almost admits in the introduction).. it goes hand in hand with victor reppert's excellent 'c.s. lewis's dangerous idea' and william hasker's 'emergent self' as cast iron theistic challenges to the materialist reduction of agency.. i'd also recommend c.s. lewis' 'abolition of man' simply as a frighteningly prophetic outlook of man's future once morals and values, much like consciousness/mind/soul here, are reduced to the material/natural.. after that its all brave new world, 1984 etc. and why not?

ok.. im off to listen to zao's new album the funeral of God..

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