Scientific alternatives to the Big bang

I find the Big Bang rather illogical, it goes against everything I know.
Is there any alternative, scientific theory explaining our Universe without reasoning that a single event that created everything?

The Big Shrink:  Space has not been expanding; rather, the meta-spacial material within it has been contracting.  Think about it:  if the universe is defined as everthing everywhere that can't expand into something else because there is nothing else, then how can we say that the universe is taking up more space?  Becoming bigger compared to what?  There is nothing else available to compare its bigness to.