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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 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>   
  
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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.
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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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Revision as of 02:20, November 19, 2009

"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]

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

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