Probably more than half the class if not all the class would not be able to give a "good enough" answer for someone who does not believe in God. Just because some people fail to answer the question or the answer is not what one would like doesn't mean that there is not God.
If someone asked a college student, "What is magnetism or what is gravity?" a person would be able to say, "Yes i know what those things are" Would they be able to give a good enough explanation of how those things actually worked? A student might answer, "Well gravity is like when you drop a pencil and it falls down, its when huge masses attract other masses."
Well, ok... How does that work?
A student MIGHT not be able to answer that question.
Furthermore, most, if not all, students have never done extensive research on such topics as: relativity, physics, and the like. Is it fair to say that these students rely on "FAITH" of the people who actually did the research? Is it fair to say that these students are familiar with these things because it occurs in everyday life? Many people do have access to small refrigerator magnets, but does that mean that know exactly how it works?
So if you ask someone who has studied the topic (Theology, Biology, Philosophy) of course they will be able to give you an answer to your liking. Just because you ask a student (who most likely has not spent 5 years intensely studying the above topics) about God and they fail to answer the question does NOT mean God does not exist.
For someone to come to a conclusion that God does not exist based on a students "ignorance" of the subject does not make it false. It is like asking a 1st grader what division is, they may know very little about it, but just because they can not give you an answer doesn't make "division" false.
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