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by simonh 1212 days ago
Some thing can't become more disproved, either it's disproved or it isn't.

The timeline is certainly up for grabs, there are uncertainties in the various ways we measure or infer distances and the age of objects, but so far nothing that invalidates the overall scheme. Roger Penrose's idea of conformal cyclic cosmology is a plausible alternative, but even that still has an event in our past that looks an awful lot like a big bang. There are just too many observations any alternative theory needs to explain, like galactic red shift and the cosmic background radiation. If stars are infinitely old, how come they still have any hydrogen left?

It's always a good idea to keep an open mind though. What are the alternatives you think have legs?