Quote Originally Posted by cmacq
Returning to the big bang, I've yet to see any argument that adequately supports it?
George Smoot and his team discovered a background radiation of 3Kelvin in the universe. These are the so-called "wrinkels in time", which are the left overs of the massive warmth radiation that was transmitted in the in the first 10^-43 seconds of the universe. Smoot won the Nobleprize in Physics for this discovery.

For a good and very accessible book I must refer to that "Wrinkels in Time", written by George Smoot and Keay Davidson. It only requires a very basic knowlegde to understand and gives a good overview of all the theories about the universe, as well as telling the story of the search and finding of this back ground radiation.