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Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:38 PM PDT
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South Carolina legislator seeks to give God credit for state fossil  Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:38 PM PDT By Harriet and McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - An 8-year-old South Carolina girl's dream of having the woolly mammoth become the official state fossil has been put on hold while lawmakers debate an amendment that gives God credit for creation of the prehistoric animal. A bill that recently passed the state House to designate the Columbian Mammoth as the state fossil stalled in the Senate after Republican Senator Kevin Bryant added two verses from the book of Genesis. The original measure followed a letter to elected officials by Olivia McConnell, an-8-year-old from New Zion, South Carolina. In it, she pointed out that there is no state fossil, said Democratic Representative Robert Ridgeway, who received the letter and sponsored the measure. Full Story

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