Rethinking mainstream cosmology

I would like to present to you - a tutorial segment from a  very interesting documentary titled "Thunderbolts Of The Gods".

The Electric Universe theory seems to make more sense to me than conventional cosmology. Mostly in the sense of the inter-connectedness of all things as well as the mysterious repeated-nature of certain patterns (the filaments, dendrites, etc seen in the human body and then in the planet and then in the universe). Fractal geometry is also mysterious in the sense that fairly simple mathematical formulae essentially describe a large variety of complex patterns. In the midst of this - certain themes seem to repeat themselves from the microcosm and the macrocosm. The idea that planets and stars are isolated bodies - and depend their existence on some purely hypothetical "big bang" - just seems more speculative to me. Currents of energy flowing through the universe, connecting stars, connecting galaxies (and even seemingly at a microscale - connecting human-cells) - just seem to be all part of the unity of creation. Unity that still allows for a great amount of variation in the detail and general theme. And if empirical plasma experiments can demonstrate this; then why do we need to believe in exotic mathematical hypotheticals such as dark matter, black holes, etc?

NASA Goddard presentation by Dr. Donald E. Scott on plasma cosmology (electric cosmology)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOI-X215A8Y

Website on the "Electric Universe":-

http://www.thunderbolts.info/thunderblogs/archives/subject.htm

Another challenge to the "big bang theory" was developed at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Bare in mind, that the author of the study is not a plasma cosmologist. I just posted this to show that plasma cosmology is not the only model/theory that challenges the "big bang" (and "cosmic background radiation" as bb proof) theory:-
http://www.physorg.com/news199591806.html