I think a more important question is whether or not the second commandment forbids any sort of artwork. It can be interpreted to mean not to bow to images or idols, but it also seems to definitively state that they were to not even make them at all:
Exodus 20:4,5 and Deuteronomy 6:8,9 Wrote:“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them"And it's pretty important to make sure you get this one right, since he follows it with a pretty serious threat: "for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me." It's the equivalent of saying "I'll hit you so hard your great-great-grandkids will die."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
