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"'''Moving the goalposts'''" is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 1980s and 1990s and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by [[evolutionists]] in debates.  It has only 47,900 references on a [[Google]] search as of June 30, 2010,<ref>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22moving+the+goalposts%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a</ref> over 10% of which show up when searching "moving the goalposts" and "evolution".<ref>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22moving+the+goalposts%22+evolution&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a</ref>   

"'''Moving the goalposts'''" is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 1980s and 1990s and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by [[evolutionists]] in debates.  It has only 450,000 references on a [[Google]] search as of August 22, 2017,<ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=moving+the+goalposts</ref> over 10% of which show up when searching "moving the goalposts" and "evolution".<ref>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22moving+the+goalposts%22+evolution&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a</ref>   

It is an expression used as a substitute for giving a direct answer to a question, on the pretense that the questioner is changing his argument.

It is an expression used as a substitute for giving a direct answer to a question, on the pretense that the questioner is changing his argument.