Robin Alan Collins is an American

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. He currently serves as the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at

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. His main interests include philosophical issues related to the relationship between religion and science and

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Education

Collins obtained his undergraduate degree from

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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 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

before transferring to the

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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."Robin Collins
Curriculum Vitae
Accessed Mar. 16, 2013 He served as a post-doctoral fellow at

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's Program in History and Philosophy of Science before joining Messiah College.

Career

Collins was interviewed as a major contributor to ''The Case for a Creator''''The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God'' (2004), Zondervan, by

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References

External links

Dr. Collins's homepage

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"
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