What is easy for me to say?
Birth defects are not by design, they are defects in the building process. Anything a human can design can be built improperly. A complex computer can have a hardware "glitch" in the manufacturing. A single car out of many can have been built wrong though the design is sound.
I have never heard a genetic specialist say that birth defects were from "bad design". It almost always happened because of some external environmental issue or because there were certain recessive genetic traits that ended up showing up.
Given how complex human life forms are it is amazing it doesn't happen more often...
I doubt these images, as horrible as they are, really shake anyone's beliefs in God or Intelligent Design. These cases you show are exceptions, not the rule.
All I can say is that if this is the best you can do it is pretty sad.
I was responding to the "exceptions, not the rule" statement. That they're exceptions makes it all better, I suppose. As long as you're not one of the exceptions.
Birth defects are not by design, they are defects in the building process.
What's makes you think they're not by design; how do you know?
Anything a human can design can be built improperly. A complex computer can have a hardware "glitch" in the manufacturing. A single car out of many can have been built wrong though the design is sound.
All true, but beside the point. Unless you're asserting that humans were designed by humans.
I have never heard a genetic specialist say that birth defects were from "bad design".
So?
It almost always happened because of some external environmental issue or because there were certain recessive genetic traits that ended up showing up.
The jury is still out on the effects of "external environmental issues," but "recessive genetic traits" are part of the design by definition, aren't they?
Given how complex human life forms are it is amazing it doesn't happen more often...
Why?