Yes, because the Christian god never allows children to be murdered, die of starvation, be molested, etc. Oh, wait.
who said he wouldnt let that happen?
What kind of benevolent god that is claimed to love their children (humanity) would stand by and let that kind of thing happen?
Well for one God wouldnt show preferential treatment over the young/old, he would love them equally.
And according the christian bible, he originally did have everything set for perfection (no murder, disease, etc) but when man sinned, he then cursed the earth to act as we know it.
So really if we look at the root cause its free will. God wanted to give man choice because he didnt want to create beings who were about the same as robots. He wanted mankind to choose to love him and make the right decisions on their own. Having free choice means you can do good or bad with it. Divine intervention every time someone made a bad choice would mean you might as well throw free will out the window.
This is all assuming a Judeo-Christian God existed/exists.
And there we go with the free will problem. I give you the choice to love you or go your own way. Oh, but if you go your own way, Ill cast you into a lake of fire to be tortured and made to scream for all eternity. ---
Fall down, go boom... Life is like a box of chocolates. Most of it is crap.