What started as a whale is still a whale.
Well then why don't you enlighten me about the Cambrian explosion and the sudden appearance, explosion of all the fully formed phyla? You see the last person I discussed this with has a PhD in geology. What are your credentials? And what is your explanation.
Your little 1-7 list is what is known as circular reasoning that contains assumptions that have to be proven are valid. If ID is true then God designed the chromosomes as they exist. Now what you have to do is prove evolution is how life evolved from pond scum and disprove the existence of a creator God. Science can do neither.