Well CTD,

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It's just the old "If creation was perfect, why are there imperfections?" rag. Nothing more.
And I though you were making an argument based on "Intelligent Design" which claims to be independent of creationism. Curious how any comment refuting ID is then countered by creationist apologetics. It's the old "have it both ways" two-step. It seems that creationism "explains" things by not explaining them.

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When recombination malfunctions, mutations result and things die, or suffer.
All you are doing is creating a false dichotomy of "good" vs "bad" and then arbitrarily claiming that only the "good" are due to the "marvelous" (ie magic) process.

One can equally claim that tossing a heads is "marvelous design" and that when you toss a tails it is corrupted design.

Sadly this does nothing to change the fact that coin tosses are random events.

Likewise mutation in general and recombination in specific are random events, and ascribing some to a "good" column while other are relegated to a "bad" are just more ad hoc ergo post hoc logical fallacies.

They are just events that happen during formation of individual organisms, with each individual acquiring different DNA in the process. Afterwards, their effect on the survival and reproduction of the organism will affect whether that particular set of changes get passed on to future generations.

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In spite of my link to a list of 10 evolutionist "scientists" who had no trouble keeping these terms straight, RAZD continues to try to confuse the terms (as I predicted)
Curiously this is still just the logical fallacy of appeal to authority. The processes of recombination and the various means of mutation are easy to keep straight in any discussion of all the processes involved in the changes to DNA from parent to offspring, however if the net results, the final effects, cannot be deduced after the fact as being due to one or the other, then there is functionally no difference.

The net effect is change to the DNA from parent to offspring. Some of those changes offer a differential advantage for survival and reproduction, while others offer a differential disadvantage. An organism can (and often do) have both advantageous and disadvantageous changes in their DNA, and changes that are disadvantageous in one generation may be advantageous to another generation.

Curiously you omitted any reference to the card deck cutting analogy that also refutes your position that recombination is "special" in some obscure way.

Enjoy.