I belong to a science website that had a very relevant thread recently, in my opinion (
http://hypography.com/forums/sociolo...tml#post243625), which in turn referred back to the authors website (
http://atheistic-science.com/home) and book.
I would recommend people read it because it follows on from a post of mine about a newspaper article, detailing how our society is following the Mayan one: All of these are interlinked subjects and interesting therefore, if you'll take the trouble to follow them up.