What God created was perfect...you are forgetting what man "created"......sin
It was sin, that set in motion the deterioration (sickness, disease)of the perfect creation
And so man cause the very genetic material of every living creature to degerate into the mess it is in now?
God help you, because it's for sure reason can't reach you.
So9
"I believe that if God had designed life, rather than letting it happen at random, he would have done a much better job."
You are blaming the wrong "god". This flesh age is not about man's perfection, only one has passed through this flesh age in perfection.
NO, that's not what I said, I didn't say it was man I said it was SIN
Can you grasp the difference?
God help you, because it's for sure reason can't reach you.
Reason? There is nothing more reasonably than belief in God