No more Big Bang Theory?

Interesting theory. not sure how they will ever prove or disprove it.

Well, they have not proven the Big Bang either.

The biggest problem with figuring out where the universe came from is that if you find something that 'gave birth to it', then you'll have to find out where that something came from and so on and so forth. It never ends. At some point we'll have to accept that either something at some point came from nothing (maybe our universe and maybe whatever gave birth to it and maybe whatever infinite number of things that have given birth to something new that lead to us finally being here) or we'll have to come to terms with the fact that there's always been something.

I don't think we'll ever fully understand it.

It actually depends on what you accepts as proof, if it is true then you were there. Not assembled as the current you to be sure, so you don't have amnesia. There are certain phenomena that exist that the Bible does not explain or even mention as existing, indeed as far as the Bible is concerned the Milky way was it. Interpretation of the Bible by ignorant men (as in lacking knowledge) placed the Earth at the centre of the Universe as it was then.
Now they have mapped the Visible Universe and the areas where matter has formed Stars and Galaxies is a very small percentage of the total area and is viewed as strands of thin bright light. Most of the universe is a cold inhospitable place where time as viewed from our reference point runs faster, if you were there walking (hard to do I accept) you would look like a 1920's movie star minus the cane.
These areas according to the best instruments available are growing larger as the Universe expands, light is red shifted from Galaxies that started forming a mere hundreds/thousands of millennium after the proposed big bang.
There is the layer of cosmic MBR that has been mapped, that if not caused by The sudden expansion of the Universe (Big Bang) must be explained by some other means. At this time I am aware of no method that cosmic MBR can be formed by a steady state Universe, there would also have to be an explanation of the red shift of the light and why Galaxies are receding from ours faster as the distance increases.

The Red Shift has been called into question as has the "expanding universe", which would make the Big Bang go away as well.

Science is about keeping on looking for answers. Sometimes those answers destroy what you believe to be.

The new theory being looked into on the Red Shift has to do with the increasing mass of the universe causing the Red Shift, not the moving apart of the universe. It's a theory brought to light by Christof Wetterich, a theoretical physicist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

He is not being scoffed at by other astrophysicists either, no, they are having to look at this theory closely.

Thanks for that link! It and the related links within were very interesting.

Personally, I believe the whole Big Bang thing has taken on an almost "religious" following. As was noted, Big Bang was getting so entrenched, that many scientists didnt even bother looking for alternatives.

Irony is funny.

As I understand it, when the idea of the "Big Bang" was first proposed, it was objected to by many because is sounded too much like a Biblical creation (i.e.: "Let there be light").

The very term "Big Bang" was considered a derogatory reference to the concept.

Now, to see it referred to as a "religious" following (I agree, by the way) I find amusing (but true).

Yep, they are very similar in many ways.

I've read articles by scientists who also happen to be religious, that consider the godly creation/Big Bang/evolution to all be perfectly linked together. Which if you do believe in God, it is by no stretch of the imagination at all to link what is said in the bible to the Big Bang and Evolution taking place over millions of years. There is nothing in the Bible that contradicts the scientifically believed to be accurate, age of the Earth.