When I was a student, we had an assignment: "Prove or disprove the existence of God" in ten pages.  One clever answer used less than a page, and got top marks for the effort.  The student wrote to the effect that the assignment was not possible using the rules of logical proof.  For in using the available conventional starting point, we would only be able to use the things that can be observed and verified by human senses within the known created world.  All one could do, the argument supposed, in that instance is prove that something in the created world was God.  In other words, you could prove that som…