Robin Collins

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Robin Alan Collins is an American philosopher. He currently^[when?] serves as the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. His main interests include philosophical issues related to the relationship between religion and science and philosophical theology.

Collins obtained his undergraduate degree from Washington State University in 1984 with a triple major in mathematics, physics, and philosophy, graduating summa cum laude. Collins spent two years in a Ph.D. program in physics at the University of Texas at Austin before transferring to the University of Notre Dame, where he received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1993. His dissertation was titled "Epistemological Issues in the Scientific Realism/Antirealism Debate: An Analysis and a Proposal."^{[1][better source needed]}

He served as a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University's Program in History and Philosophy of Science before joining Messiah College.

Collins has taught philosophy at Messiah University since 1994 and is a leading advocate for the Fine-Tuning Argument. Collins was interviewed as a major contributor to The Case for a Creator^[2] by Lee Strobel. Using his background in both philosophy and physics, he has developed a Fine-Tuning for Discoverability argument, in which he argues that many scientific constants are fine-tuned to optimize our ability to discover knowledge about the universe.

• Dr. Collins's homepage Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
• The Case for Cosmic Design by Robin Collins. (Here Collins debates Paul Draper and Quentin Smith regarding whether the structure of the cosmos supports divine creation; it is part of the first online book debating theism and atheism/naturalism, at the leading atheist website infidels.org)
• Interviews with Collins for PBS program "Closer to Truth"