Aah of course... somehow we should believe that at some stage something accelerated to an impossible - according to all current observation - speed and then decelerated, somehow dissipating this energy somewhere.

Just to fit a bunch of observations that wouldn't otherwise make sense for the current model.

I remember the story of a chap from Pisa having a hard time trying to budge a bunch of clerics to consider his observations proof that their model was broken. ;)