Well apart from the fact that "expansion and contraction" are the opposite of "steady state", that steady state means the universe "always was steady", not "always was changing", and that no model, steady state or otherwise, for what happened prior to the big bang is taught anywhere in any school (researched, yes. taught, no), why bother with this?

Isn't this proof that we should be focusing on our replacement theories so we can settle this question once and for all? Come on! Let's get back to work on our Replacement World View... this article is old news!!!!

PS: I found some pretty damning proof that Turok supports the Young Earth Creationists and their evolutionary belief that man and dinosaurs co-existed... providing yet more proof that scientists are on a campaign of misinformation by believing one thing but publicly saying another.