Earlier this year eight-year-old Olivia McConnell wrote her state representatives to suggest that since South Carolina doesn't currently have a state fossil, it should be given one -- a woolly mammoth recognizing the find of the animal's fossilized teeth by slaves in 1725. State Senator Mike Fair (R), who has compared the president to Osama Bin Laden, helped to block funding for a rape crisis center, called climate change a hoax and blocked evolution from the state's science standards, opposed the bill unless it was amended to quote a passage from the Book of Genesis explaining the Biblical creation of life. He said, "I don't have a problem with teaching theories. I don't think it should be taught as fact." Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell (R) amended it to describe the Columbian Mammoth as "created on the Sixth Day with the beasts of the field."
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