Chromosome Count Report: Supporting The Urantia Book's Unique Quality of Credibility
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Chromosome Count Report: Supporting The Urantia Book's Unique Quality of Credibility
The Urantia Book was published in 1955. UBtheNEWS documents how new discoveries and scientific advances increasingly support The Urantia Book's account of planetary history, it’s prophecies, and, to a limited extent, it’s statements about science. UBtheNEWS also provides introductory and other educational information about The Urantia Book.
Chromosome Count Report Summary: The authors of The Urantia Book assert “there are forty-eight units of pattern control—trait determiners—in the sex cells of human reproduction.†In 1955, when the book was first published, the general scientific community believed that human beings have forty-eight chromosomes; in 1956 researchers determined that there are, in fact, forty-six chromosomes. The sex cells are distinct from other (somatic) cells. This distinction, taken in light of the reference to the total number of “units of pattern control,†supports an interpretation of The Urantia Book that is consistent with the now universal acceptance of forty-six as the correct number of human chromosomes.
The Urantia Book not only avoided supporting science that was incorrect at the time of publication, but also provided specific information that turned out to be consistent with what was about to be discovered shortly after its publication.