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| − | "'''Moving the goalposts'''" is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 20th century and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by elitist liberals such as [[evolutionists]] in debates. It is allegedly the practice of, in an argument, one person challenging the the to meet a certain set of conditions in order to prove something, and then proceeding to change those conditions after they have been met by the other person. Essentially, moving the goalposts is when an evolutionist tells you ''"Show me proof of God!"'', and, after being shown the Bible, telling you that ''"Um...the Bible doesn't count! Show me something else!"'' | + | "'''Moving the goalposts'''" is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 20th century and is obscure in [[America]] outside of use by elitist liberals such as [[evolutionists]] in debates. It is allegedly the practice of, in an argument, one person challenging the other to meet a certain set of conditions in order to prove something, and then proceeding to change those conditions after they have been met by the other person. Essentially, moving the goalposts is when an evolutionist tells you ''"Show me proof of God!"'', and, after being shown the Bible, telling you that ''"Um...the Bible doesn't count! Show me something else!"'' |
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| − | The phrase is often used by liberals in an effort to seem "educated" and "intelligent" by using the obscure, hardly-used phrase. This is unsurprising, as rather than actually use scientific data and peer-reviewed facts to back up their globalist, anti-american claims, evolutionists will resort to attempting to confuse the other person when backed into a corner. Luckily, the only goalposts that real Americans need is the Holy [[Bible]]. | + | The phrase is often used by liberals in an effort to seem "educated" and "intelligent" by using the obscure, hardly-used phrase. This is unsurprising, as rather than actually use scientific data and peer-reviewed facts to back up their globalist, Anti-American claims, evolutionists will resort to attempting to confuse the other person when backed into a corner. Luckily, the only goalposts that real Americans need is the Holy [[Bible]]. |
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| | The phrase's obscurity can be demonstrated with a quick Google search. "Moving the goalposts" 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>, while a Google search for "creationism", a mainstream scientific subject, has 4,510,000 results. This proves without a doubt that evolution is false. | | The phrase's obscurity can be demonstrated with a quick Google search. "Moving the goalposts" 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>, while a Google search for "creationism", a mainstream scientific subject, has 4,510,000 results. This proves without a doubt that evolution is false. |
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| − | 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". |
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| | == Why "Moving the Goalposts" Isn't Bad == | | == Why "Moving the Goalposts" Isn't Bad == |