The evidence in favour of a big bang cosmology is much less definite than is widely realized, and it is not impossible that we are living in a steady state universe.
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BURBIDGE, G. Was there really a Big Bang ?. Nature 233, 36–40 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233036a0
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