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Feedback: Mammoth tidings

28 May 2014

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Mammoth tidings

GOOD news for South Carolina. Earlier, its House of Representatives opposed creationist references that the state Senate slipped in while enacting 8-year-old Olivia McConnell’s proposal to name the Columbian mammoth as the state fossil (26 April). Then an inter-house “conference committee” , despite the majority of its members initially voting in favour of the “created on the Sixth Day” language. On 16 May, the bill . That was wise politics: Olivia…

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