He argues that some complex organisms bacteria, with their whiplike tails needed to propel them, for instance cannot be simplified, or they will lose their ability to function. To Behe, that raises questions of how they could have evolved from simpler forms. Miller, however, took a mousetrap Behe said could not be simplified, dismantled it, reduced its parts and got it to work. Behe responded that Miller proved his point only by using intelligence to re-engineer it. Miller and others charge that advocates of intelligent design duck their peers failing, for instance, to publish their arguments in major scientific journals because their enterprise is religious, not scientific.
Design advocates claim they have been deliberately snubbed by the scientific establishment.
In one celebrated case, professor Dean Kenyon of San Francisco State University was removed from teaching biology by his department chairman in 1992 after criticizing Darwin's theories. He was reinstated by a vote of the Academic Senate. Other scientists report receiving correspondence from colleagues who confess doubts about Darwin's theories but are afraid to go public for fear of career setbacks. The second tactic is to unify the religious world Christians, Jews, Muslims and others who believe in a creator to produce a constituency that would insist that intelligent design be considered an option for debate. To support those efforts, advocates of intelligent design have acquired significant research funding.