pinemarten wrote:

If it looks like a duck, talks like a duck, and walks like a duck; what may we infer it is?

cyreks reply:

A Platypus?.....Ha Ha.

All kidding aside though, I would place the 'big bang' in the same catagory as the 'geocentric theory'. Fabricated!

It was born with the Hubble apparent recessional observations of the galaxies.

The expansion of the light waves by an intrinsic repulsion is the most logical conclusion.
This conclusion answers four questions.

1 - It makes us appear to be in the center of the Universe.
2 - It explains the 'Olbers parradox' adaquately.
3 - It explains Arp's redshift anomoly.
4 - It explains the 'dark energy' problem.

I have presented the last two solutions on pages 4, 5 and 6 of the 'Against the Mainstream' segment of the BABB.
I started it out with 'Big Bang Reputiation' and followed with other articles.
Read them to get an idea of a 'steady state Universe'.