Yea I apologize, considering myself an astrophysicist, I should NEVER rule ANYTHING out and yes, there are a few convincing "big crunch" arguments, most of which reside on arxiv... there arguments revolve around the average density of the universe being enough to halt the expansion and begin a contracting... but as Martin and myself said above, this argument has stopped "holding water" as a result of recent research....

Need Improvement, your addition to this thread, based on what you call the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament?) has been moved to Speculations. Please continue your discourse there. The Astro/Cosmo forum is more for mainstream conventional science discussion.