birth defects

Do I really know all of the answers to this question? When I stopped being religious, this one really captured my thinking. Evolution is the only correct answer. But, why am I wrong?

The title of this thread is rendered in quotes because I've heard said thus many times by evangelical Christians. Along with this bit dogma is another: "There are no accidents." The ideas that God doesn't make mistakes and that there are no accidents are often used to attack not only abortion...

A friend of mine posted a link to a music video on Facebook - Hand On Your Gun by Lowkey. There's a segment at the end that shows a deformed infant, and in the comments was a suggestion that it was a depleted uranium birth defect. I hadn't heard of this before, so I tried to do a bit of...

An excellent but highly confronting (all supporters of the Iraq war should watch it!) report into the aftermath of Fallujah. Rather than going into the inevitable debate about DU, my question to those who say DU is harmless; if not DU, then what is causing this epidemic of birth defects and...

I was surprised not to see this mentioned (cue someone with a link to make me look like an idiot). Front page of today's Guardian was a story about a large rise in birth defects and cancers in children in Fallujah...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9511980/