> Uh, except that these are the same issue. There's a scene when Qui-Gonn mentions to Obi-Wan that he thinks Anakin was "created" by the midichlorians themselves.

Right, but the idea of midichlorians is bad. The idea of Anakin's virgin birth is not. In the same way that using midichlorians to explain the Force is a horrendously bad idea, so is using midichlorians to explain his virgin birth. But that's a separate issue from the idea of the virgin birth on its own. These separate and distinct ideas were employed in the movie by relating the two together, but I maintain that only one of them is actually a bad idea.