C.o.l. What does it mean to be better? I would argue that nothing within a system can be ‘better’ that the system itself. So, if God created the system, we can not create anything better than that system. As has been pointed out we are so increadibly far from even approaching the wonders of the natural world that it really isn’t much of a comparison.
On another issue, I would object to your implied premise that a lack of suffering is preferable to suffering in general. Some of the greatest achievments in art, literature, philosophy and science have come about because of suffering. How deeply can you love life if you have not known pain?
As an engineer and a father figure, God really sucks. In one sense, God created a system that (hah) appears to work with no intervention on His part. On the other hand, the reason that He doesn’t need to step in and say, “You know, you might want to put your drinking well a bit farther from your privy” is that the sysetem includes cholera and other wonderful debuggers (double hah) to do the job for Him.
God is a lousy parent, as well. Never around, not one bit of child-support, and he leaves dangerous things hanging around.