Creation is definitely flawed from the perspective of human suffering . Which is one perspective , and one selfanthropocentric one which you ' re choosing to take . It is not objectively true that the universe is flawed which is not to say that it is false , only that individual humans are not always happy in it . There ' s a ~ 400 year old debate about whether this is the best of all possible worlds , and there are smart people on all sides . My point is not that it is or isn ' t , my point is that the itself flawed argument that an imperfect world means an imperfect Creator takes this far from proven premise as a starting point . There Jewish response , in a nutshell , is that a God has an infinitely larger perspective than even all of humanity together , so if He tells us the Creation is perfect , then it must be so , whether we naturally feel like that or not , and b even if we could prove the Creation to be imperfect , God is perfect , this the imperfection in his Creation must be deliberate . Lehavdil elef havdalot , Picasso could and did draw lifelike images , so a mature viewer looks at his later work and asks why he chose not to , rather than calling him an idiot , and furthermore , he would indisputably be a lesser artist if he ' d just stuck to drafting .