In article , "Robert L.
Oldershaw" writes:

This thread is not about "disproving" the Big Bang model.

Says who? That is certainly the agenda of many contributors.

It is about the status of the Big Bang model and various
add-ons, with the idea of exploring where our cosmological
assumptions are empirically supported and where they are
little more than speculative guesses backed up mostly by
hype and endless repetition.

Such a false dichotomy (either empirically supported or hype) is a
caricature which is not helpful for serious discussion.