Of course some conversants did not need a lot of help from editing to make them look silly. But consider, for example, the <!g>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 <!g>ID, Ruse is consistently respectful of religious believers, he strongly opposes the dismissiveness of <!g>Richard Dawkins and those of his ilk, and his own arguments against ID admirably avoid the kind of tactics to which he was subjected.