God's real. He's just...he's been gone a long time.
He doesn't interfere. He could be on earth for all we know, watching, seeing how it plays. Its not the nicest of thoughts and people have been looking for him. But in the case you mentioned, no he probably wouldn't have interfered leaving it to mortals to do the best they could.
And we wouldn't have either. Heaven doesn't work like that ...Maybe it should, but it doesn't