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Have downloaded all 20-something PDFs. According to the colophon, the publisher, World Scientific, is a Singapore-based publisher with offices in the US (Hackensack, NJ) and UK (London, England). It would be interesting to know whether anyone at World Scientific is aware of the track records of the various editors/contributors.
The book is credited to five editors…
• Robert J. Marks II (Baylor U.)
• Michael J. Behe (Lehigh U.)
• William A. Dembski (Discovery Institute)
• Bruce L. Gordon (Houston Baptist U.)
• John C. Sanford (Cornell U.)
…with assistance from two other persons:
• Franzine D. Smith, Technical Editor
• Chase W. Nelson, Editorial Assistant
Here's the table of contents, sans page numbers:
Section One: Information Theory & Biology
• Introductory Comments / Robert J. Marks II
• Biological Information — What is It / Werner Gitt, Robert Compton, and Jorge Fernandez
• A General Theory of Information Cost Incurred by Successful Search / William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, and Robert J. Marks II
• Pragmatic Information / John W. Oller, Jr.
• Limits of Chaos and Progress in Evolutionary Dynamics / William F. Basener
• Tierra: The Character of Adaptation / Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski, and Robert J. Marks II
• Multiple Overlapping Genetic Codes Profoundly Reduce the Probability of Beneficial Mutation / George Montañez, Robert J. Marks II, Jorge Fernandez and John C. Sanford
• Entropy, Evolution and Open Systems / Granville Sewell
• Information and Thermodynamics in Living Systems / Andy C. McIntosh
Section Two: Biological Information and Genetic Theory
• Introductory Comments / John C. Sanford
• Not Junk After All: Non-Protein-Coding DNA Carries Extensive Biological Information / Jonathan Wells
• Can Purifying Natural Selection Preserve Biological Information? / Paul Gibson, John R. Baumgardner, Wesley H. Brewer, and John C. Sanford
Selection Threshold Severely Constrains Capture of Beneficial Mutations / John C. Sanford, John R. Baumgardner, and Wesley H. Brewer
• Using Numerical Simulation to Test the “Mutation-Count” Hypothesis / Wesley H. Brewer, John R. Baumgardner, and John C. Sanford
• Can Synergistic Epistasis Halt Mutation Accumulation? Results from Numerical Simulation / John R. Baumgardner, Wesley H. Brewer, and John C. Sanford
• Computational Evolution Experiments Reveal a Net Loss of Genetic Information Despite Selection / Chase W. Nelson and John C. Sanford
• Information Loss: Potential for Accelerating Natural Genetic Attenuation of RNA Viruses / Wesley H. Brewer, Franzine D. Smith, and John C. Sanford
• DNA.EXE: A Sequence Comparison between the Human Genome and Computer Code / Josiah Seaman
• Biocybernetics and Biosemiosis / Donald Johnson
Section Three: Theoretical Molecular Biology
• Introductory Comments / Michael J. Behe
• An Ode to the Code: Evidence for Fine-Tuning in the Standard Codon Table / Jed C. Macosko and Amanda M. Smelser
• A New Model of Intracellular Communication Based on Coherent, High-Frequency Vibrations in Biomolecules / L. Dent
• Getting There First: An Evolutionary Rate Advantage for Adaptive Loss-of-Function Mutations / Michael J. Behe
• The Membrane Code: A Carrier of Essential Biological Information That Is Not Specified by DNA and Is Inherited Apart from It / Jonathan Wells
• Explaining Metabolic Innovation: Neo-Darwinism versus Design / Douglas D. Axe and Ann K. Gauger
Section Four: Biological Information and Self-Organizational Complexity Theory
• Introductory Comments / Bruce L. Gordon
• Evolution Beyond Entailing Law: The Roles of Embodied Information and Self Organization / Stuart Kauffman
• Towards a General Biology: Emergence of Life and Information from the Perspective of Complex Systems Dynamics / Bruce H. Weber
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