# Robin Collins

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{{Short description|American theologian}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
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|caption          = Robin Collins 
|name             = Robin Alan Collins
|school_tradition = [Analytic Philosophy](/source/Analytic_Philosophy)
|main_interests   = [Philosophy of Science](/source/Philosophy_of_Science)<br />[Philosophy of Religion](/source/Philosophy_of_Religion)<br />[Natural Theology](/source/Natural_Theology)<br />[Philosophical Theology](/source/Philosophical_Theology)<br />[Christian Apologetics](/source/Christian_Apologetics)
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|website=https://www.messiah.edu/homepage/1662/robin_collins|education=[Washington State University](/source/Washington_State_University) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts), [BS](/source/B.Sc.))<br />[University of Texas at Austin](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Austin)<br />[University of Notre Dame](/source/University_of_Notre_Dame) ([PhD](/source/PhD))}}

'''Robin Alan Collins''' is an American philosopher. He serves as the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and as the chair of the Department of Philosophy at [Messiah University](/source/Messiah_University) in [Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania](/source/Mechanicsburg%2C_Pennsylvania).  His main interests include philosophical issues related to [the relationship between religion and science](/source/the_relationship_between_religion_and_science) and [philosophical theology](/source/philosophical_theology).

==Education==
Collins obtained two undergraduate degrees from [Washington State University](/source/Washington_State_University) in 1984 with a triple major in mathematics, physics, and philosophy, graduating ''[summa cum laude](/source/summa_cum_laude)''. Collins spent two years in a Ph.D. program in physics at the [University of Texas at Austin](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Austin) before transferring to the [University of Notre Dame](/source/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."<ref name="vitea">Robin Collins' [http://home.messiah.edu/~rcollins/Curriculum%20Vitae.pdf Curriculum Vitae] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202193411/http://home.messiah.edu/~rcollins/Curriculum%20Vitae.pdf |date=2014-02-02 }}. Accessed Mar. 16, 2013</ref>{{better source needed|date=August 2020}}

He served as a post-doctoral fellow at [Northwestern University](/source/Northwestern_University)'s Program in History and Philosophy of Science before joining Messiah College.

==Career==
Collins has taught philosophy at [Messiah University](/source/Messiah_University) since 1994 and is a leading advocate for the [Fine-Tuning Argument](/source/Fine-tuned_universe). Collins was interviewed as a major contributor to ''The Case for a Creator''<ref name="casefor">''The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God'' (2004), Zondervan, {{ISBN|0-310-26386-7}}</ref> by [Lee Strobel](/source/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.

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== External links ==
* [http://home.messiah.edu/~rcollins/ Dr. Collins's homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328224849/http://home.messiah.edu/~rcollins/ |date=2014-03-28 }}
* [http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/robin_collins/design.html 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)
* [https://www.closertotruth.com/search/site/robin%20collins Interviews with Collins for PBS program "Closer to Truth"]

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