Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God,
He abandoned them to their foolish thinking...
Romans 1:28 NLT
"Professor of Molecular Biology (Biola University) Douglas Axe made the following perceptive comments in 2021:
‘For just a minute or two, put yourself in the place of
someone who it 
determined to deny God.
To make that easier, take
yourself back to a moment when you yourself were resolved to assert your
sovereignty over your life.
In those moments, God’s
presence seems highly inconvenient, so we push Him out of our minds.
I’m
suggesting that atheists are merely people for whom this momentary
lapse becomes a consciously adopted way of life. … Atheism is a commitment, not a deduction”."
CMI