someone is adding pseudoscience in there -- intelligent design is certainly not mainstream but it is not pseudoscience as hypotheses such as the ancestor simulation, or any simulation hypotheses are technically intelligent design.
'''William Albert "Bill" Dembski''' (born July 18, 1960) is an American [[mathematician]], [[philosopher]] and [[theologian]]. He was a prominent proponent of [[intelligent design]] (ID) pseudoscience,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boudry |first1=Maarten |authorlink1=Maarten Boudry |last2=Blancke |first2=Stefaan |last3=Braeckman |first3=Johan |authorlink3=Johan Braeckman |date=December 2010 |title=Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design: A Look into the Conceptual Toolbox of a Pseudoscience |journal=[[The Quarterly Review of Biology]] |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=473–482 |doi=10.1086/656904 |pmid=21243965|url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482/file/6828579.pdf }} Article available from [https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482 Universiteit Gent]</ref> specifically the concept of [[specified complexity]], and was a senior fellow of the [[Discovery Institute]]'s [[Center for Science and Culture]] (CSC).<ref name="Dembski_SF">{{cite web |url=http://www.discovery.org/p/32 |title=William A. Dembski, Senior Fellow - CSC |website=[[Discovery Institute]] |publisher=Discovery Institute |location=Seattle, WA |accessdate=January 10, 2014 |quote=A mathematician and philosopher, William A. Dembski is Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.}}</ref> On September 23, 2016 he announced his official retirement from intelligent design, resigning all his "formal associations with the ID community, including [his] Discovery Institute fellowship of 20 years."<ref name="Official_Retirement">{{cite web |url=https://billdembski.com/official-retirement-from-intelligent-design |title=Official Retirement from Intelligent Design |accessdate=September 26, 2016}}</ref>
In 2012, he taught as the ''Phillip E. Johnson Research Professor of Science and Culture'' at the [[Southern Evangelical Seminary]] in [[Matthews, North Carolina]] near [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]].<ref name="SEC_Faculty">{{cite web |url=http://ses.edu/academics/faculty/william-dembski |title=William Dembski |website=[[Southern Evangelical Seminary]] |publisher=Southern Evangelical Seminary |location=Matthews, NC |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703104257/http://ses.edu/academics/faculty/william-dembski |archivedate=July 3, 2013 |accessdate=January 10, 2014}}</ref>
