Full Idea
The universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.
Gist of Idea
The universe can't have been created by gods, because it is too imperfect
Source
Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], II.180)
Book Reference
Lucretius: 'On the Nature of the Universe', ed/tr. Latham,Ronald [Penguin 1951], p.65
A Reaction
This is certainly a problem if God is 'supremely perfect', as Descartes proposed, because then the universe would also have to be supremely perfect. See Idea 2114 for a possible answer from Leibniz. Hume agrees with Epicurus about design.
Related Idea
Idea 2114 This is the most perfect possible universe, in its combination of variety with order [Leibniz]