apologetics apologetics comes from the Greek word for defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CatholicCulture.org - What You Need to Know] Reference

Was Mike's post about RecA an exercise in apologetics?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Study in Scientific Discovery] Reference

Catholic apologetics is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [I saw TDVC and I almost lost my faith...] Reference

Genocide apologetics is as controversial as it gets, plus it reveals the dark roots of much of sci-fi writings.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present?] Reference

Nothing like classic apologetics, which is sort of one question at a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing with the Eyes of G.K. Chesterton] Reference

Faith spawns apologetics, which is a euphemism for sophistry and dishonest argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another unintelligent move - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Recently, I've found "apologetics" even among classical scholarship on the reign of Tiberius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extraterrestrial Visitors?] Reference

I understand that it will be irresistible for some to label this approach as "apologetics,""reverse engineering" or worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Adam Jacobs: The Jewish View Of Creationism] Reference

I understand that it will be irresistible for some to label this approach as "apologetics," "reverse engineering" or worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Adam Jacobs: The Jewish View Of Creationism] Reference

Keep up the Hussein apologetics guys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims] Reference

It is not "apologetics" to talk 01: 04, 25 May 2007 (EDT).    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

He wanted me to do the same kind of apologetics work he does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons To Believe -] Reference

You never see this kind of apologetics when the perps are white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

I have little time for the kind of apologetics that is divorced from ethics and political life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inhabitatio Dei] Reference

This is what makes the kind of apologetics that Alternet is currently engaged in so intolerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

However, many Christians seem not to realize that in the wider world the word 'apologetics' is often used pejoratively.    From Wordnik.com.  [blog.kennypearce.net] Reference

John Bircherism was born in the apologetics of McCarthyism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt Osborne: The Unnatural History of Nontroversy] Reference

People want hard policies not a group of tiptoeing apologetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

He might have spared his apologetics, for there was no opposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919] Reference

For Lewis and the like, such apologetics are not useful, so they are suppressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia: Noam Chomsky on the CIA Demographic Catastrophe Report] Reference

It is difficult to see this paragraph as anything other than blatant apologetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia: Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman: Averaging Wrong Answers] Reference

Most of the apologetics for terror on this blog are coming from you and your friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Why, then, should they have hit upon the odd device of delivering their apologetics in pairs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

Because they wanted to focus on denial, apologetics, blaming the West, blaming foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 22, 2007] Reference

Straight forward ethnic cleansing - a vile business - almost as vile are the terrible apologetics on here.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Unless, of course, Oliver Stone out-ultimates him in the moral-relativist, terrorist-apologetics department.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Stone and Steven Spielberg: The Doublemint Twins of Treason: James Wolcott] Reference

Sadly, the possibility of finding such fertile common ground is lost in the midst of mean-spirited apologetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Thatamanil: Beyond the Theism/Atheism Divide: A Plea for Humility] Reference

Religious orthodoxy over the centuries has refined confirmation bias into an art form called “apologetics.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerie Tarico: When Science Teachers Don't Believe In Evolution] Reference

On balance I prefer the Times leader to the increasingly hysterical apologetics for the Gazan Holocaust on this blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

On the contrary, there is a strong need for what I call health reform apologetics to defend the need for health reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [D. Brad Wright: Health Reform Apologetics] Reference

That reform away from governmental Shariah will take generations regardless of the denials and apologetics of imams like Rauf.    From Wordnik.com.  [M. Zuhdi Jasser: Getting Real on Shariah] Reference

When loyalty to any tradition deadens our moral sensitivity, when faith is confused with apologetics, it's time to quit the faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Hirschfield: Sexual Misconduct by Clergy: Who's to Blame?] Reference

But religions have, historically, a wonderful way of living in spite of their weaknesses -- yes, and in spite of their apologetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jesus of History] Reference

As for Chaplain Terry Moran, who is doing his best, he should rethink his focus on miracle-based apologetics and shift it to tactics.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chaplain Gives Advice on Fighting the Good Fight] Reference

ID/creationism can offer no such precise and accurate predictions and as such, have found no legitimate application beyond apologetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

(If you ever want an example of rationalizing to contrast with reasoning, you cannot do better than to look at apologetics of theodicy.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Clay Farris Naff: Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil] Reference