The commandment can logically be interpreted to forbid murder, or the premeditated killing of an innocent person. The rest of the killing is therefore allowed. Which is good, because the law given to Moses had quite a few crimes for which the punishment was death, to be performed by the rest of the tribe. And that's not counting all of the killing done in the process of clearing the promised land for settlement...
"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
