RJ said that his books are describing a battle between good and evil. DO is without any doubt an Evil deserving the capital 'E'. But what about the Good in the so respected by RJ balance? In which sense He is to be good, why is He to be the counterpart of the DO? He doesn't take part in the world, He doesn't hear the prayers even of good peoples, it's absurd to expect a miracle from Him, He has nothing to do with the world after creating it. And how could be named "good" somebody taking no care for anything what we know?

We see in the series a cosmic, could we say - a supernatural resistance to the acts of the DO; but that's not the Creator, but the Wheel, a kind of an ambivalent machine. Even the Creator's champion as ta'veren is in the world as part of the Wheel's program. Yes, it's created by the Creator to be such, but the goodness is not a part of it. Where is it then? Somebody's goodness is manifested only in the way of his/her approach to the others. And how the Creator is threatening the world and the humans?

The answer is given IMO in a metaphor from CoT ch.24, where the Creator is compared with a "gardener". It's the only metaphor for Him IIRC in the series except the name "Creator" itself and the "Light" what is to be regarded as His main attribute, but is never directly assigned to Him. And a divine being like the Creator could be described only by metaphors. The choice of metaphors for describing a god, the common metaphors for Him, are one of the most important sources of information about His profile. And the gardener-metaphor is not an accidental one. It appears namely by an attempt of describing the Creator's viewpoint to the fate of the world.

I'm sorry for not giving the quote, I have not the english text with me, but it's in the scene of Rand's dialogue with Logain, after Logain telling Rand about Taim. Rand is wondering about Logain thinking, it's the Creator's mercy, what cleansed saidin. And now the reason for any miracle being absurd: the Creator created the world and left it to humans to make it in a paradise or a hell; the Creator created countless worlds, watched them flourishing or failing and is creating new and new worlds; and He never cry about the failed ones, because a gardener doesn't cry about every dead flower. Rand is surprised by thinking so about the Creator, he's hearing LTT agreeing with this words as to another one's words, Rand decides it's from his experience with LTT's voice. Now what we have from this scene?

It's something, what an excellent educated non-Forsaken man from AoL regarded as obvious truth. And the gardener-metaphor is used to make it even more obvious, as an explanation for common humans. At least in AoL it was common to think about the Creator if not like above, but at least in the image of a gardener. And I think it most likely the westlanders from 3Age regarding the Creator also as a gardener, because 1. it's Rand's thought 2. concerning the ununderstanding of people from today, therefore as an explanation will be used something everyone will regard as unquestionable, the first to be thought by everyone about the Creator.

The Creator not take part in the world is a widespread conception in Europe in the earliest modern times, known as "deism", and IIRC RJ said he used the deist conceptions by creating the WoT philosophy. But the deists prefered to use another metaphors for God - an architect or a clockmaster. And the difference is in the relations of the God to the world. The deist world is a machine, human beings and circumstances in their life are details in that machine, they have only to work correctly and everything is to be good. The description of the Wheel are very close to that, with the exception that in the deist theology there is no place for a DO. And if there is a DO in a clockwork-world, the clockmaster will find a proper time (of course not to be understanded by the inhabitants of the clock why not earlier or later, but a certain time) to fix it, and inside the world it would be felt as a radical miracle of the kind Logain expecting. But a gardener doesn't fix his creature, he's intervening in another way. And the damaged creature is also damaged in another way - not out of order, but ill, infected, suffering. It's not to be corrected by direct fixing, but by indirect care as irrigation, dunging and similar things not to be noticed inside the world. Or if a plant or it's part is grown really wrong, it's to be cutted away - the only direct way of an intervention for a gardener. Isn't it a good reason for the Light's champion being not a builder but a destroyer? At least, if the Creator would take part, it would be not a pleasant thing for the damaged world. In some sense the not taking part is Creator's mercy.

But what's good in all this? The answer is in the meaning of the "gardener" role in the series. What is the first association for a WoT-reader with the word "gardener"? The Ogier. The Nym could be placed in the same cathegory (Nyms are constructs, Ogier not, but their meaning, their place in WoT-world is the same). And there is nothing closer to good in the series then the Ogier and Nym. I mean not only isolated cases of good, but a living complex system, where the good is dominant. It's the best model of living good in what RJ created. Of course not a complete model, but enough for foguring out, what "the Good" has to be. The Ogiers are oficially named "brothers to the trees" and they behave respectively. But could the trees theirselves recognize the brother-feelings of the Ogier? In some way yes (as in treesongs), but not in the way a sential being could recognize somebody acting like a brother. Ogiers are not like the Ents from LotR treeherds, they don't listen to the trees, they only cultivate them.
There is no communication between the trees and their brothers. Ogiers take care to provide the best condition to the plant, but it's the plant's work to grow in what it can. The plants are doing their job and the Ogiers their, only the result is common. Loial said the tree in the Mirror world "wanted" to become a weapon, and he did intervened, but he made it by stimulating growth in the form of some self-rebuilding of the tree. It's more similar to the change of a ta'veren's life, then to a miracle (the ta'veren is not Creator's work, but the Wheel's, but there is such kind of supernatural effect in WoT, so it's the most likely model for eventual Creators actions). Ogiers act by harmonizing plants between them and by delicately stimulating their natural growth. Delicately, i.e. not to be recognized by the objects, because the plants haven't the mind for it, but if the Creator regards people as plants, maybe humans haven't the specific sense to recognize the Creator's interventions. But the Ogier are intervening much more in their steddings then what we have seen about Creator's ignorance to the world's fate. The Nym intervene even more, and Nym are more gardeners then the Ogiers.

But a Nym tells something more about. In TEotW the Green Man said, that the Creator wanted everything to stay where planted and to come up bravely against any troubles the Wheel could give (but the Creator would have no objections against some little help from the Nym). Bearing everything is more appropriate to say about sential beings then about plants. But at least in AoL the plants are commonly regarded as bravely bearing any trouble, from where else the name of the path of the leaf may come from? (And back from this theory to the path of the leaf: the bearing everything will be the most important thing in it, and the pacifism only means for it, but it's clearer as a doctrine and that, combined with the memories about the no-war AoL old times, made it known as the essence of the Path. That's because the first Tinkers are regarded by the da'shain as Lost with no difference to algaid'siswai; the Tinkers would be in some way heretics of the Path by changing their objectives because of troubles.) The Creator wants to grow up troubles-resistant creatures, or in other words, experienced in their good will creatures, good by their own will, not only because of circumstances. The creator is breeding strong wills combined with goodness, standalone good beings. If that's right, there must be something in the WoT universe about saints, and I don't find any hints about, except the plenty of strong characters in the series. Maybe it's something like step by step breeding process - taste for peaceful well-organized life in 2Age, strong will in 3Age, another virtues in 4Age etc. (And the seven Ages are some sort of seasons cycle). The plenty of the worlds the Creator created is another point for Him threatening the Creature as a breeding pen, without the possibility of one-on-one communication between Creator and creature, with the care of the Creator on a level unrecognizible by humans, and wit the threaten of destroying and isolating the world if going too bad.