How do we respond to the argument of "stupid design"?

Question

What would counter-arguments from the Jewish perspective be to arguments like the ones in this video against intelligent design? The basic premise is that humans, Earth, and the universe are, in fact, quite stupidly designed and have many flaws.

I have a few of my own counter-arguments already (namely, that nothing is without flaw except for God, and thus no matter how we were created there would be some flaws — all things considered, life is far more miraculous and intelligently designed than not), but I am curious what we can put together here.

Answer 1

I once heard the following from Rav Aharon Lopiansky. He basically said that any such suggestion of "If G-d really made the world, it should have been like such and such" is making the assumption that when G-d creates a world, He does it in exactly such a way. Saying "If I created the world, I would make it like such and such" shows nothing, because that has no bearing on how G-d creates a world. And we have no model of how G-d creates worlds to compare our world to. So the assumption of the question, that if G-d created the world it would be exactly like X, is baseless.

Additionally, R' Lopiansky added that we believe that it is more of a revelation of G-d's complete perfection that He can create a world which has so much fragmentation - there is an unveiling of G-d's perfection from within the disparity.