These concepts led Cook to further explore issues of Religion and Science, and Cook wrote three books in this area, "Prehistory and Earth Models," Scientific Prehistory" and "Science and Mormonism," the last co-authored with his son, M.Garfield Cook.

After being run out of IRECO and its successors, Cook and his family went on to found other ventures, including the consulting firm Cook Associates with his son, current US Representative Merrill A. Cook. By 1983 he had effectively retired, although he sometimes taught at the Salt Lake Community College.

During his career, Cook received many awards, including the Nitro-Nobel Gold Medallion in 1968 [this is not the same as a Nobel Prize], the Chemical Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemists, 1973; and the E.V. Murphee Award from the American Chemical Society, 1968. He also patented over 100 inventions.

Summarized by Kent Larsen