True science will never contradict the bible, and many miracles will have evidence behind it (for example there is plenty of evidence for the world wide flood 4,300 years ago — God caused it but there are ridges along the ocean floor where He broke up the fountains of the deep, we have the fossil record showing rapid burial, soft tissue fossilization only possible with rapid burial, the Grand Canyon, etc)
Yesterday, I believe God still reminded me that the preaching of the cross is always going to have some sort of foolishness attached to it.
Even if science 100% proved every word of the bible, the very fact we are counter culture, counter this-world, etc means that no matter how factual, the majority of people do not in general want God telling them what to do. They want to be god and they do not want to share the throne with anyone. So many will be hostile, and intellectual arguments will not win the hard hearted.
This does not mean to not use the evidence to help people in winning them to Christ. I remember when God was working on me and drawing me, I was amazed there was evidence. If someone merely told me to call on God so I could go to heaven, I likely would have drifted away after because modern evangelism leaves that as the goal. I liken it to getting a flu shot — easy, no commitment, little demand on your “Adamic ego” (AW TOZER), and something that you did and don’t need to repeat.
A true conversion has a bit of a wooing process where God uses circumstances to wake us up, then draw us and woos us and brings us to a point of decision. And if we say No God may withdraw for a season or forever from us. And if we say yes, it might not always mean salvation but God might draw us some more until we finally say, “I do” and “You win.” That i believe is more the moment of salvation, and it keeps going and going and going. It is more like a marriage than just a fancy wedding.
if there was no leap of faith it would be sight and not faith. but if someone is looking for God and truly needs a personal encounter with the true and living God, feel comfortable using apologetics and evidence for Christ and the bible.
Make it a goal merely to get someone to make their own verdict and leap toward where the evidence leads.