How does religion explain birth defects?

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How does religion explain birth defects. Well first of all, how does science explain them?

This video explains it rather well (though be prepared for snark, it's combating Christian theology in particular):

What happens to something when it is left alone for a long time? It deteriorates. It goes from order, to disorder. That is the second law of thermodynamics if I remember correctly.

This only applies to closed systems.

A bunch of people have asked how a loving God could allow things like defects and such. Do any of you have children? If you a child, and he or she has a choice to either do the right thing, or do the wrong thing which has consequences, and you let him or her decide, and he or she chooses to do the wrong thing, what do you do?

I don't have children, but I do have a dog and she does the 'wrong thing' all the time. I do correct her, distract her, refocus her attention, becoming annoyingly repetitive with her, but I see no need to punish her. If my demands are reasonable and my approach sensible, she will obey, if they are not, then she will not, and I don't begrudge her this. I'm more patient with her than I am with anyone else, because she is the closest thing I do have to a child, and while, especially during early puppy-hood she frustrated me to no end and I occasionally fantasized about beating her over the head with a mallet... I controlled myself, and I have bipolar disorder. Why could God not do so?

Have you ever though about what if you are wrong? What if there really is a God?

Ah, Pascal's wager.