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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" backed the House, despite the majority of its members initially voting in favour of the "created on the Sixth Day" language. On 16 May, the bill was approved by governor Nikki Haley. That was wise politics: Olivia had told CBS News she was determined to have the unadulterated bill passed, even if it "might not be until I'm 23 or 40... If it doesn't pass this year, I'm going to be back next year."
Mail from crowdprediction.cfpf.org.uk tells of "a 'Crowd Prediction' experiment to see if the date ...
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