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 HAHAHA.  All you have to do is hang out anywhere humans are for long to see how quite imperfect we are.  Or do a bit of self examination.  We age and die starting when we begin to have a bit of sense.  We sleep away 1/3 of our lives.  We are subject to many many afflictions.  Our minds are limited and biased.  We are a product of natural evolution to solve only one fitness function: Survive long enough to dependably reproduce.  How the hell do you get "perfect" from that. 

And if you believe in a Creator then we were created with enough intelligence, Talents in the famous parable, to improve ourselves and our world.  Pity those that bury their Talent.