but that knowledge hadnt kept her from talking , each story leading smoothly to the next : the obtuseness and scientific cherry-picking of the creationists whod testified at the hearing ; the tart exchanges between the lawyers of the opposing camps and the bemusement of the judge ; the battles among her own colleagues over how best to debunk the scattershot fundamentalist arguments ; the intellectual arrogance of some of the paleontologists themselves , including one of the most famous , an icon in the field and , by paleontological standards , almost a household name .