Robin Collins is an American philosopher who is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1994. His main interests include philosophical issues related to the relationship between religion and science and philosophical theology. Drawing on a background in both philosophy and physics, he is a leading advocate of the Fine-Tuning Argument and has developed a Fine-Tuning for Discoverability Argument, which holds that many scientific constants are fine-tuned to optimize our ability to discover knowledge about the universe.
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Philosopher and theologian Robin Collins argues that theism entails the expectation that God would create a reality structured to allow for scientific discovery to easily happen.
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