Science and Public Policy


The War that Wasn't:  Science and Religion Have Often Stood Together, Editorial by Alan Cutler in the Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2006.

Rising Above The Gathering StormEnergizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine
ISBN: 0-309-65463-7, 504 pages, 6 x 9,  (2005)
This report is very influential inside the Beltway, as well as out

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time
  Booklet prepared by the American Astronomical Society

American Astronomical Society statement on the teaching of evolution