The easy answer is anything written by Ray Franz. ;)
But there are two books which, collectively, form a sort of pseudo-bible for me personally. What's interesting is that the two authors have very different outlooks, and yet both are well-respected scientists who muse about the origins of the universe and the role of God in it - coming (obviously) to very different conclusions (or lack thereof, as the case may be):
"The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
I can't recommend these books enough. Really. I mean it. Just for kicks, I'll paste two short quotes from these books below. I think you'll find them amusing. If you like them, by all means, get the books!
[Sagan]
"The Dragon In My Garage
'A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage.'
Suppose I seriously make such an assertion to you. Surely you'd want to check it out, see for yourself. There have been innumerable stories of dragons over the centuries, but no real evidence. What an opportunity!
'Show me', you say, and I lead you to my garage. You look inside and see a ladder, empty paint cans, an old tricycle - but no dragon
'Where's the dragon,' you ask.
'Oh, she's right here,' I reply, waving vaguely. 'I neglected to mention that she's an invisible dragon.'
You propose spreading flour on the floor of the garage to capture the dragon's footprints. 'Good idea', I say, 'but this dragon floats in the air.' Then you'll use an infrared sensor to detect the invisible fire. 'Good idea, but the invisible fire is also heatless,' I say.
You'll spray-paint the dragon and make her visible. 'Good idea, except she's an incorporeal dragon and the paint won't stick!'
And so on. I counter every physical test you propose with a special explanation of why it won't work.
Now what is the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there's no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? You're inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I'm asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so."
[Hawking]
"Our Picture Of The Universe
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady.
'But it's turtles all the way down!'
Most people would find the picture of our universe as an infinite tower of tortoises rather ridiculous, but why do we think we know better? What do we know about the universe, and how do we know it? Where did the universe come from, and where is it going? Did the universe have a beginning, and if so, what happened before then? What is the nature of time? Will it ever come to an end? Recent breakthroughs in physics, made possible in part by fantastic new technologies, suggest answers to some of these longstanding questions. Someday these answers may seem as obvious to us as the earth orbiting the sun - or perhaps as ridiculous as a tower of tortoises. Only time (whatever that may be) will tell."
A7