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to the site dedicated to the study of certain statistical properties of meaningful texts as compared to randomized conglomerates of letters. 

So far this site contains the following articles:

         1. Brendan McKay and Mark Perakh,  Study of Letter Serial Correlation (LSC) in some Hebrew, Aramaic, Russian, and English texts. Part 1. Measurements and calculations

(see http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/Texts/Serialcor1.htm ) First posted on February 9, 1999

2. Mark Perakh and Brendan McKay. Idem, Part 2. Experimental results - LSC in randomized texts.

( see http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/Texts/Serialcor2.htm ).

First posted on February 9, 1999

3. Mark Perakh and Brendan McKay, Idem, Part 3. Experimental results - LSC in real meaningful texts.

( see http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/Texts/Serialcor3.htm ).    

First posted on February 9, 1999

4. Mark Perakh and Brendan McKay, Idem. Part 4. Discussion and interpretation of results

(see http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/Texts/Serialcor4.htm  ).   

First posted on February 9, 1999

5. Mark Perakh. Letter Serial Correlation in additional languages and various types of text. Part 1: Experimental Data.

(see http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/Texts/addlang1.htm )    

First posted on July 2, 1999

6. Mark Perakh.  Idem, Part 2: Discussion of Experimental data

(see http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/Texts/addlang2.htm )    

First posted on July 2, 1999

7. Mark Perakh. Application of the Letter Serial Correlation Test to the Voynich Manuscript. Part 1: Experimental Data.

(see http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/Texts/voynich1.htm )    

First posted on July 2, 1999

8.  Mark Perakh. Idem, Part 2: Discussion of Experimental Data and Possible Interpretation of Manuscript's Nature

(see http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/Texts/voynich2.htm ).    

First posted on July 2, 1999

In this eight articles, a hitherto unknown phenomenon is described in detail, revealing an intrinsic order that exists in meaningful texts (nearly 70 texts in 12 languages were tested) regardless of their language, style, length, etc, as well as in some meaningless conglomerates of letters provided the latter meet certain conditions in regard to the letter distributions in them. This effect is absent in the truly randomized texts as well as in some artificial texts possessing a very high degree of order.  In the last two papers of that set the investigation, by means of the Letter Serial Correlation effect, of a mysterious medieval text known as Voynich manuscript, is discussed.

Please visit also the site dedicated to the Bible code controversy, at http://www.talkreason.org/mkarep . At http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/   there also are many interesting materials regarding the Bible code controversy as well as some other related fields of interest.

Another section in this website deals with the contradictions between science and the Bible ( http://www.talkreason.org/perakm ) . It contains several essays as well as reviews of a number of popular books and papers about the Bible vs. science controversy and about the intelligent design theory.

A site containing articles by many writers as well as letters from readers related to the dispute between the modern forms of creationism and genuine science is at www.talkreason.org .

M..Perakh's home page:  http://www.talkreason.org/marperak/ 

Comments:  marperak@cox.net  or bdm@cs.anu.edu,au