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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>

"'''Moving the goalposts'''" is a [[British]] expression first popularized in the late 1980s and 1990s.  It is an informal logical fallacy in which previously agreed upon standards for deciding an argument are arbitrarily changed once they have been met.  Its use is obscure in [[America]], and appears in debates between [[creationists]] and [[evolutionists]].  The term has only 48,800 references on a [[Google]] search as of February 14, 2010,<ref>http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22moving+the+goalposts%22&aq=&aqi=g2&oq=%22moving+the+goalposts%22&fp=baa94940edcea411</ref> nearly 14% of which show up when searching "moving the goalposts" and "evolution"<ref>http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22moving+the+goalposts%22+evolution&aq=&aqi=&oq=%22moving+the+goalposts%22+evolution&fp=baa94940edcea411</ref> and 20% of which show up when searching "moving the goalposts" and "creation" <ref>http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22moving+the+goalposts%22+creation&aq=&aqi=&oq=&fp=baa94940edcea411</ref> 

 

As evolutionists are incabable of explaining the wonders of Creation, they often resort to this phrase when pressed by [[creation science|creation scientists]] in debates, as in "now you're moving the goalposts" in response to a question.

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