Tangle writes:
Care to tell us why this knowledgeable god gave us a foreskin to start with then? Seems like a bit of a hack to me......
Apparantly it was humans who did the hacking. From a scientific perspective, we could readily question the intelligence of a Creator(assuming One exists) but in order to do so all that we can do is speculate philosophically.
Theodoric writes:
evidently this perfect god dude screwed up.
One could philosophize that there are some aspects of the creative process that are left for humans to work. Hypothetically, if God created
everything finished, we humans would have nothing to do.
Thinking As A Science writes:
If a man were
to know everything he could not think. Nothing
would ever puzzle him, his purposes would
never be thwarted, he would never experience
perplexity or doubt, he would have no problems.
If we are to conceive of God as an All-Knower,
we cannot conceive of Him as a Thinking Being. Thinking is reserved for beings of finite
intelligence.
Hypothetically, a Creator, should one exist, would not necessarily have to create finished products. Humans are a prime example. Were it so that we were created as finished or perfect, there would be no need to think, explore, discover, and/or solve anything.
It makes more sense that circumcision, apart from being a mere religious ritual, was also symbolic of humans "cleaning up" a part of their body that could harbor disease or uncleanness. (Not that humans knew the activity of bacteria at that time)