The universe is either expanding or it is not. If it is expanding then the Big Bang may have been the cause. If it is not expanding then the Big Bang did not occur. In recent literature, there has been a significant number of objections and problems presented concerning the Big Bang. In this work, a non-expanding polytropic model of the universe is presented that can account for many of the observations previously attributed to the Big Bang and some observations that cannot be explained if the Big Bang did occur.