Death could be the ultimate birth defect, although in a universe such as ours, unrestricted life might be considered a cancer.
At this point it would only be fair of me to identify myself as an evangelical christian. Although I am not an educated person, I do have an interest in ID because over the years all of the arguments in this area have been based on large biological structures such a eyes etc. ID makes it impossible to posit macro solutions to the problem by reducing the scope of the question to the smallest units.
It is easy enough to cite primitive eyes when trying to explain a complex eye, but it is far more difficult to cite primitive molecular systems and processes when trying to explain irreducibly complex molecular systems and processes.
Nice to meet you xzins.
Hi, TB. I, too, am an evangelical Christian. I appreciate the emphasis on the incredible complexity of micro-organisms. It's not like I could drop an electric cord in my dirty dishwater and create an amoeba.