Here's the basic premise.
[quote] "The fact that there's a hot fireball at very early times: that is confirmed," Brandenberg told Live Science. "When you try to go back all the way to the singularity, that's when the problems arise." [/quote]
The article goes into how the new information is affecting what we thought we knew, and how and why our understanding is changing and growing.
[spoiler]I figured this was relevant since there was some ridiculous discussion about it. So here's some actual information. [/spoiler]
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The Big Bang was very presumptuous and taken out of context to begin with and the evidence for the theory was never really proof of how the universe came into existence but was a better explanation for why the universe is expanding. The fact remains that the Big Bang did occur but the extent of its involvement and cause is very debatable.