Did God invent the parasitic worm that resides in children's' eyes in parts of Africa, causing them to go blind?

Yes, I believe he did - and there was a little jar on Noah's Ark reserved especially for a breeding pair...

I prefer the Gnostic view of things in which the despotic creator God of the Old Testament is, in fact, The Devil, and all His Material Works are inherently EVIL. Good is the pure spark of spirit that resides in us as our souls. Hell is therefore Earth...

Just as much bollox as the other lot of course but it provides a neat allegory for the essential duality that rests at the heart of the human condition even if it tells us SFA about the real substance of Cosmic purpose, micro or macro.

Myth is Dead; it was killed off by Religion. Religion was killed off by Philosophy, and, as Stephen Hawking tells us, Philosophy was killed off by Science which illuminates our very souls - in a strictly allegorical sense of course.