Einstein and others said basically the same thing when Lemaître proposed the theory. Of course he would say that, liberals said, he's a Catholic priest. His theology, not his science, was speaking. Couple years later, Einstein apologized.
For calling "big bang" bad science?
You familiar with the work of Halton Arp?
You familiar with the increasing number of major league physicists, particular plasma physicists, who are starting to reject big bang?
Do you have any real answer to my own claim that having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would obviously be the mother of all black holes and that nothing would ever "bang" its way out of that?
The basic reality is that the only thing there ever has been to support the idea of an expanding universe and the necessary corollary of a "big bang" was a misinterpretation of redshift data.