Moving the goalposts

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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,[1] nearly 10% of which show up when searching "moving the goalposts" and "evolution".[2]

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

  1. 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
  2. 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

See also