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Will Provine Has Died

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Thank you to Allan MacNeill for the following announcement:

Sorry about the placement of this, but Will Provine, perhaps the greatest historian of evolutionary biology of the 20th century, has died. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1995, had it surgically removed and underwent chemo and radiation. The tumor returned about four years ago and eventually killed him. Here is a link to his FaceBook page announcing his passing:
https://www.facebook.com/will.provine?fref=ts
Will was an unusually generous, gentle, and kind man. He always invited creationists and ID supporters to his evolution class, and always treated them with the utmost respect. He was a mentor to me and to hundreds of other historians, philosophers, and practitioners of evolutionary biology and population genetics. We will miss him.

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Sadly, rational atheism died along with him.Mung
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His debates with Phil Johnson in the 1990s offered a rare opportunity to hear the best both sides had to offer. You don't see that nowadays.cantor
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