An eight - twelvemonth - onetime palaeontology partizan has exuberate over anti - evolution politicians . Her proposal of marriage to designate the Columbian mammoth as the prescribed state dodo of South Carolina has beensigned into lawby Governor Nikki Haley .
The fib began innocently enough : before this year , Olivia McConnell — a third - grader who wants to be an Egyptologist — learned that South Carolina was one of only ten states that did n’t have an official state fossil . She suggest that the legislative body rectify the situation by bestowing the honor upon the Columbian mammoth . McConnell decide the mammoth was the appropriate choice after she did some research and learned that slaves on a plantation had dug up fossilized tooth of the extinct mammal in 1725 . They are thought to be among the first identified craniate fossils in North America .
https://gizmodo.com/south-carolina-and-the-mammoth-1554936545
House Bill 4482was easily passed by the House , and it was endorsed by the Senate Committee on Judiciary . But , when the bill come to a floor vote in previous March , it present resistance from some state senator . The most vocal resister was Kevin L. Bryant ( R - District 3 ) , who said he ’d be willing to compromise if the Senate tacked on an amendment designating the King James Bible ’s rendering of Genesis 1:24 - 25 — which describes the sixth twenty-four hours of creation — as the prescribed state passing from an ancient historic text . When that did n’t crop out , he reword the amendment so that the idiom , “ as created on the Sixth Day with the other beasts of the study , ” would be total after each mention of the word “ gigantic . ”
The Greenville Newsreported :
Bryant said he thinks his late amendment will pass muster as a logical extension of the bill because , “ Since we ’re dispense with the fossil of the woolly mammoth then this amendment would handle with the offset of the woolly mammoth . ”
“ The courts have upheld using Old Testament scripture because it does n’t point to a undivided religion , ” he said . “ If I used text from the New Testament , if somebody challenge it in court you might lose on those grounds . ”
The amendment did n’t go on muster and the bill was last sign into jurisprudence without any creationist caution .
As for Olivia McConnell , she say that she might spell a volume about the experience . ( Yeah , this kid is ambitious . ) She also wants to make T - shirt featuring the fossil that ask , “ Can you dig it ? ”
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