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David Plaisted does a pretty good job on the link you gave me. But I tend to believe this:

Who said the designer put the error in there? The designer did not design things so that they would die. His creation was VERY GOOD. Then, man decided he wanted to be god and screwed up the works. God warned them, on the day you eat, you shall surely die, and truly spiritually man died that day, but physically he began to degenerate and get sick too. The Bible says the animals suffered under the same curse. Why? I don't know, other than a perfect world was suddenly made imperfect by Man's sin.

David Plaisted does a pretty good job on the link you gave me.

Did you read the rebuttal to Plaisted?

The Bible says the animals suffered under the same curse.

This answer doesn't explain much. Why are the only animals which have a broken Vitamin C gene are the ones which are closest to humans? Why is the destructive change identical in all primates? If conditions were degenerating, why would the mutations be so specific?

Besides the vast majority of errors the essay refers to for the most part are neutral ones. The endogenous retroviral DNA and processed pseudogenes are just DNA fossils, not really interacting with much or doing any harm...not much of a molecular punishment! Why would these things be shared only within related species?