The nucleus of living cells contains the bodies that carry inheritance traits. These bodies are called chromosomes. If evolution is true, then it would be logical to expect an orderly increase in chromosomes as life becomes more complex.

Concerning this matter, Professor Moore of Michigan State University relates:

“As a classroom professor teaching evolutionary concepts to bright, independently working students, I have been shown, often, different lists of chromosome numbers from a variety of textbook authors. . . .

“My independently thinking students formulated the question or problem: If animals changed from so-called single forms to complex multicellular forms (and they raised the same thought regarding plants), then is there any pattern of increase of chromosome number?”

Is there? Well, humans have 46 chromosomes in their body cells. Then surely, less complex plants and animals should have less. But we find that, among others, the deer mouse has 48, the striped skunk 50, the cebus monkey 54, the cow 60 and the donkey 62! Even the lowly potato has 48, and cotton 52! And the one-celled protozoa called aulacantha has 1,600 chromosomes!

So there is no pattern of increasing chromosome numbers such as one would expect if evolution were true. Instead, what we find is that each group of living things has its own special chromosome structure, and it stays that way. That is what we would expect to find if each kind was created separately, with its own characteristics, and was unrelated to other kinds.

For example, of chromosome changes the book Chromosomes and Genes says: “Many produce both physical and mental disabilities.” When a human is born with forty-seven chromosomes instead of forty-six, he may be a mongoloid or have other mental and physical deficiencies. Forty-eight chromosomes produce mental defectives and physical deformities in humans.