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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 73,000 references on a [[Google]] search as of March 21, 2008,<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> nearly 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>

Its most common usage by [[evolutionists]] is as an excuse to avoid answering questions that follow up on prior answers, as in "now you're moving the goalposts" in response to a question.

== References ==

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== See also ==

* [[Quote mining]]
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