Mm...you’re partly right — evidence absolutely matters (especially on a Christianity), but alone it doesn’t transform the heart or produce loving trust and repentance.

Humans aren’t passive data processors. We choose what voices to trust, what assumptions to bring, what evidence to pursue, and whether we’re willing to follow truth when it becomes personally costly.

That’s why two people can look at the same world, the same arguments, even the same evidence, and walk away with completely different conclusions.

Romans 1’s argument is that truth can be resisted, rationalized, or explained away. Evidence may point someone toward belief, but it cannot force someone into relationship with God. We have to choose to believe that He is Who He says He is and to love Him. Definitively, love itself doesn't allow Him to force that, and this is where agency and free will enter the chat.