Divine intervention and evil

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One ofthe stock objections to Christian theism is the claim that if God existed, he’dprevent many of the (allegedly) gratuitous evils we see in the world around us.
But other issues to one side,this speculation raises an intriguing conundrum. Most of us have grown up onscience fiction stories–in books, movies, and TV dramas. One popular SF plotinvolves time travel. A catastrophe in the recent past has blighted humanexistence. It’s too late to undo the damage, but it’s not too early to undo thedamage. The protagonist travels back in time to a time before the catastrophe,to prevent it.
However, a paradoxical effectof his mission is that, if successful, changing the timeline will instantly andutterly erase the record of the previous timeline. No one will remember thecatastrophe he averted. Even he won’t remember what he did, for the counterpartwho went back in time doesn’t exist in the new timeline that takes the place ofthe old timeline. He saves the world, but he gets no credit of his feat.
By analogy, for each(allegedly) gratuitous evil that God prevents, there will be no historicalrecord of his intervention (or contravention). So, for all the infidel knows,God has, in fact, preempted many (allegedly) gratuitous evils. In the nature ofthe case, doing so will leave no trace of the preempted evil.