Of course some conversants did not need a lot of help from editing to make them look silly. But consider, for example, the Michael Ruse interview in which he was pushed on speculations involving the role of crystals in life’s origin. Ruse is a philosopher and historian of biology. Did he really spend the majority of his interview with Stein talking about biochemical theories of life’s origin, or was this a detour Stein engineered and then exploited? The regrettable thing is, while a strong critic of ID, Ruse is consistently respectful of religious believers, he strongly opposes the dismissiveness of Richard Dawkins and those of his ilk, and his own arguments against ID admirably avoid the kind of tactics to which he was subjected.