Might be that God did something like that, but scientists cannot explain it that way, because that is outside of the realm of science.
If we evaluate it as science, they simply fudged the numbers. It may be a more sophisticated fudge factor than a high school student trying to fake the results of his science project that didn’t turn out the way he expected, but it is no different in spirit.
Possibly, but there is a lot of phenomena that is outside of the realm of science that we must assume is true from a scientific standpoint.
Consciousness being the biggie. They’ve tried all sorts of explanations that were not really explanations, like it’s an emergent property, etc., but all they can see is brain tissue that doesn’t do enough per se to cause all of the effects they observe.
So in my opinion, the Steady State (or Static State) is unworkable from a scientific viewpoint, and Robert Jastrow was on the money:
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”