Word: preys
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...Designed the First Eye? The eye couldn't possibly be the product of accidental mutations, say Darwin's critics. Sure, a bird with sharper eyes might catch more prey and have more offspring, but where did the first eye come from? How could a process of gradual improvements produce a complex organ that needs all its parts-pinhole, lens, light-sensitive surface-in order to work? It's no accident, says Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, that the eye resembles a camera, which everybody instantly recognizes as a product someone designed. "If it looks, walks and quacks...
...Prey from Peace City, Hiroshima A visual history of the bombing and aftermath in Hiroshima...
...that young men criticized Sacranie - who was recently knighted for "services to the Muslim community, to charity and to community relations" - for failing to seek them out during his visit. To be sure, the older generation has to find ways to reach out to kids who may otherwise fall prey to extremism, as the Muslim leaders' joint statement concluded. "The youth," it said, "need understanding, not bashing." But understanding is in short supply, even within families. Khaliq Ahmed, a taxi driver in Leeds, muses: "I'm British, you know. I live here. If I had to fight, I'd fight...
...people grew up in such an atmosphere, and from where they got this ideology that they can kill people. We have to educate young Muslims. Islam does not give the right to kill anyone." Kozbar ticks off a list of the possible causes of alienation that might make Muslims prey to the politics of hatred: discrimination, poverty and "foreign issues like Iraq and Palestine." Still, he continues, "these issues do not justify acting in this way." It's easy to get British Muslims to agree on one thing; few seem to view U.S. foreign policy with anything but despair. High...