2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11744Arguments and evidence against the hot big bang model are summarized. The observations which point to an explosive cosmogony and the quasi-steady state cosmology are outlined.6 pages, Latex, Invited paper presented at IAU Symposium No. 183, Cosmological Parameters and Evolution of the Universe, read August 21, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan (Kluwers Academic Publishers, in press)Astrophysicstext