Over the last year, I’ve had quite a few visitors who find my blog by searching for Dr. Will Provine and his brain tumor. I had done a review on the movie “Expelled” by Ben Stein in June of 2009 and mentioned Dr. Provine in that review.
Dr. Provine is an atheist and opponent of “intelligent design”. He is a professor at Cornell University where he teaches courses on evolution.
During the movie, Dr. Provine said that if his brain tumor ever came back, he would shoot himself. I have a feeling that people are trying to find out if that ever happened and if he followed through with what he said.
I did a little more research in order to satisfy my readers’ curiosity. I wasn’t able to specifically find out if his brain tumor had returned, but I did find that as of March 2010, he is still participating in debates regarding evolution.
Here is Dr. Provine’s bio on the Debate Summit website. Here is more information about the Debate Summit.
Let’s continue to pray for this man that someday he would understand that there is a Creator to whom he will give account of his life one day and that, regardless of how he thinks this world was made, he needs to think more about his eternity!
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Im sorry Doctor. It’s got to be very scary for you. God bless you.
Please be okay Dr. Provine.
I’m praying the same!
I don’t know the up-to-date health status of my old friend and dorm-mate, Will Provine. As I understand/remember it (having seen–and quite a while back–only pieces of the movie “Expelled”), Will didn’t want to duplicate the experience of his brother’s death from cancer. It certainly wouldn’t be the prospect of death/nonexistence itself that would bother him–everything dies–but I suppose the disability, dependence, and (perhaps) pain of the dying process.
In any case, Will is a scientist. If presented with actual convincing evidence–beyond assertions and personal anecdotes, which don’t carry much evidentiary weight–of “a Creator to whom he will give account of his life one day,” I’m confident he would embrace the concept. Until then–at least as long as he’s in his right mind, which is not a given with brain tumors–I doubt that he will.
Thanks so much for the extra info on Dr. Provine!
I would assert that there is so much actual convincing evidence to back up an earth created by one Master Creator that you would have to purposely ignore it. His imprint is left on everything He created – the very order with which things consist as opposed to chaos and disorder – speaks to His handiwork.
I would also say that it takes as much faith to believe in evolution as it does to believe in Creation, even with all the supporting evidence for it. It boils down to what you choose to believe in regard to what you can’t see. We didn’t see the beginning of it all with our very own eyes – so, we have to put our faith somewhere. Once we do that, everything else we see, we will subconsciously make sure lines up with what we believe.
Either way, at the end of it all, no one will have any excuses before a Loving God. We’ve all had our chance and continue to have new chances every single day.
As a former atheist myself, it’s easy to look back and see how I was confused, lost, prideful and selfish.
All you have to do is be open to the possibility that a creator exists and weigh all the evidence. It is obvious to me know how this wonderful existence was the work of an all-loving being. It’s even more obvious that all the pain and suffering in the world is the result of man’s evil.
I hope and pray that Will as well as atheists all over the world open their minds to the possibility of a loving creator. Will, I hope your health improves so you can relax and enjoy live as nature intended. We don’t have to know everything, we just have to appreciate it.
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I’m sorry for that pain Dr. Provine, hope everything is gonna be okay and I will pray for your complete healing. God Bless You..
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