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Name: Evan G
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Metro: Cedarville
Birthday: 4/28/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: I love to serve God and to have fun. Whether that leads me to tutor elementary students, teach swim lessons, lead small groups, attend Cedarville University, study hard, encourage the guys on my hall, pray for tough situations, play DDR, write long weblogs, code tough programs, or just sleep, I enjoy it. I enjoy my life.
Expertise: Outside the realm of music, I can do all kinds of things, or at least, I'm willing to try.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Computers (Software)
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  misternave
MSN: infinitenave@msn.com
Jabber: evchiu@gmail.com
Member Since:
8/16/2005
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| I just completed my first paid job as a freelance graphic designer. God really blessed the results and it came out amazing. I designed a set of posters to promote my friend's campaign. I took the photos and organized the information, he wrote the paragraphs and posed for the photos. If you're a sophomore at Cedarville University, I highly recommend you vote for Mark Miller.
Check out the campaign website here.
If you like it, please leave me feedback, it's always encouraging to get feedback.
-Evan :D
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| I'm very pumped right now. The results from the ACM programming contest are in and posted. My team came in 11th out of 110 teams from this region (Eastern Central North America). We solved 5 of the 8 problems. The team unity was really good, we worked well together and didn't get snagged on little stuff. I'm also pleased at the list of teams we beat, including Ohio State and Michigan State.
Praise the Lord! We prayed before the contest started, and I now publicly give the glory for this accomplishment to Him. He really helped us see the hidden boundary conditions and put all the pieces together to have success.
Here's the final scoreboard:
http://acm.ashland.edu/2006/standings.html
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| So, recently Xanga has fallen off of my priority list.
So I'm going to talk about the one thing that I wanted to 
Why the Bible is true.
Have you ever thought about that? Why is the Bible true? What makes it different from any other book? Why do we believe this one and not any others? Well, it's true because God says it's true. Seriously. That's the only way that we can know it is true. Now you should have realized already that this arguement is circular. God says the Bible is true where? In the Bible, of course. So now we have a circular arguement.
So, come again, why do I believe in a book that can only be proven true by a circular arguement? By faith. That's how God always wanted it to be. He wants us to step out and faith and take the Bible as true. He wants us to look through eyes of faith at the circumstances of life and see His providential hands. So the Bible is true now because I believe it is true? Yup.
Can I use some other form of logic?
Nope, you can't. If you try to use logic to prove that the Bible is true, you get into the question of how your logic can be true. If you appeal to logic to be your source of truth, you are stuck with Descartes wondering if you exist. Cognito ero sum. Oh, so you know Latin? I think therefore I am? Nope, you're still circular there. You can't break out of a circular argument to bring something into the sphere of existence or truth using logic.
How about experience?
What are experiences? Think about it. The matrix is the perfect example of trying to use our experiences to prove something. It looks real, feels real, tastes, real, sounds real, and even smells real. But you don't really know if you can trust your senses, do you? What if they're just the electronic inputs of some machine? Far-fetched? maybe. Possible? Yes.
So basically, if you don't believe in God, you don't have any basis for knowing anything. If God exists, we can trust Him to create us with senses that properly convey the reality of the world around us. We can use our senses to discover God by experiencing His creation. The other option is skepticism. The belief that you can't believe in anything. Oh yeah, that's another contradiction.
So what have we learned from reading this?
Any system of belief you chose begins with a contradiction or a logical problem. So how do you choose? That's up to you. God is an easy assumption for me to take, believe, and live by. Do I ever doubt that God exists? Sure I do. Do I ever doubt that any of this exists? Sure I do. Do those doubts change the way I live? Nope. Praise God.
Why aren't you an agnositc?
I prefer the way of faith to the way of doubt. I see my world through faith, and the belief becomes stronger through recognizing God's guiding hand in my life.
Amen.
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| :::This is not an update:::I know you wish it was:::
My life's really full right now, and xanga's a really low priority because it's kind of impersonal. I mean, I have no idea who's going to be reading this. So I'm going to offer up a list of topics, and let readers vote on what they want to hear about.
- Being an RA
- Cedarville Culture
- The New Statue
- Girls
- My roommate Jeremy
- Being an orphan
- My Church
- Class
- Being the Junior Lab Tech
- Not leading a Discipleship Group
- Active Extracurricular Projects
- Seven Literal Day Creation and the age of the universe
- Why the Bible is true
- Things I doubt
- Thing's I'm afraid of
Pick a few, and I'll hit some of them.
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| I’ve only been back one day and it’s already been wonderful. The drive down was really good. Highway 86 in New York was really really empty. For most of the trip (the parts that weren’t construction) I could only see four or five other cars on the road with me. The high gas prices are catching up with people. It made for a really nice drive, though. Pennsylvania and Ohio were pretty much traffic as normal. Saturday evening, I went to dinner at Colonial’s with Carla and her family. That was definitely good times. Her little siblings are fun. Sometimes I wish I had lots of little siblings, but usually not. Emily’s a good sister, and I’m really happy to have her. This morning, I went to church at St. John’s. It was very good to be back. Then I organized and unpacked more of my stuff. At 3:00, we met Brock Weston, our new RD. I like him a lot already. He’s 26, newly married, and a huge Cedarville fan. We went to the Polaris area of Northeastern Columbus and drove go-carts, played laser tag, and mini-golf. The go-carting was really cool because they powdered the track so that our cars could drift through the turns. I’m very excited for this year. I’m proud to serve God as a Rickard RA! For dinner, we went to bd’s Mongolian Barbecue. It was excellent. It’s not like any other restaurant. You go down what looks like a normal buffet, but instead of ready food it’s got raw meat and vegetables and sauces. You fill your bowl with these things thing bring it to the guys at the grill who throw it on a hot round iron and cook it while you wait. Then you take it back and enjoy it fresh and hot with rice or in tortillas. It was one of the best meals ever. Brock Weston, the new Rickard RD
Jon Lawson, Brock, Drew Brown, and Rob Stahl at bd's
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