@ProfBravus actually gives a great answer to your challenge here when he says, “This is because the very earliest and simplest forms of life were not such that they would leave fossils or any other durable trace evidence behind.”
The Bible says you can stop looking now for your “trace evidence” because you won’t find it. The Bible says God brought life forms into existence fully formed.
So this is in direct contradiction to your claim that, “Absolutely nothing is gained scientifically by positing God’s involvement in anything.”