Editing Answers in Genesis (section)

===Richard Dawkins interview===
In 1998, Answers in Genesis filmed an interview with [[Richard Dawkins]], a prominent evolutionary biologist at [[Oxford University]], resulting in a controversial video that AiG posted on its website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2004/08/publicintellectualspoll/ |title=Public Intellectuals Poll |access-date=March 9, 2008 |last=Herman |first=David |year=2004 |work=Prospect |archive-date=November 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106105034/http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2004/08/publicintellectualspoll/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dawkins addressed it in the essay: "The 'Information Challenge{{'"}}, published in ''[[A Devil's Chaplain]]'' in 2003. The "suspiciously amateurish" interview included, according to Dawkins, "the kind of question only a creationist would ask in that way" (namely, to "give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome"). Realizing that he had been duped, Dawkins, at his admission, was angry at the thought and initially refused to answer the question but relented and continued the interview. Dawkins wrote: "My generosity was rewarded in a fashion that anyone familiar with fundamentalist tactics might have predicted. When I eventually saw the film a year later, I found that it had been edited to give the false impression that I was incapable of answering the question about information content. In fairness, this may not have been quite as intentionally deceitful as it sounds. You have to understand that these people really believe that their question cannot be answered!"{{sfn|Dawkins|2003|loc=[http://www.skeptics.com.au/publications/articles/the-information-challenge/ p. 91]|ps=}}

The Australian Skeptics wrote that AIG edited the film to give the appearance that Dawkins was unable to "give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome" and that a segment that shows him pausing for 11 seconds was a film of him considering whether to expel the interviewer from the room for not revealing her creationist sympathies at the outset. Dawkins reported to the Australian Skeptics that the interviewer shown in the finished film was not the same person who had originally asked the questions. Dawkins and Barry Williams also said that AIG had subsequently changed the question to make it look like Dawkins, who answered the original question put to him, was unable to answer.<ref name="ASkeptics">{{cite journal |last=Williams |first=Barry |year=1998 |title=Creationist Deception Exposed |url=http://www.skeptics.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/magazine/The%20Skeptic%20Volume%2018%20%281998%29%20No%203.pdf |journal=The Skeptic |location=Sydney |publisher=[[Australian Skeptics]] |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=7–10 |issn=0726-9897 |access-date=October 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016053110/http://www.skeptics.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/magazine/The%20Skeptic%20Volume%2018%20%281998%29%20No%203.pdf |archive-date=October 16, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>