If you’re a creationist looking for a quick answer to the vexing question of hominid fossils, I have two words for you: Ratso Rizzo. Lucy, Australopithecus, Homo erectus … they’re nothing more troubling than the post-Garden ancestors of Dustin Hoffman’s consumptive anti-hero in Midnight Cowboy.

The Guardian’s Stephen Bates paid a visit to the Creation Museum, which is set to open next year with the mission of pushing back against “evolutionary natural history museums that turn countless minds against Christ and Scripture.” He found dinosaurs — Tyrannosaurus Rex, specifically — frolicking along side children in idyllic pastoral settings, a rendition of Noah’s Ark that sounds very much like a demasted clipper ship, and an explanation of those hominid fossils from museum designer Patrick Marsh.

But what, I ask wonderingly, about those fossilised remains of early man-like creatures? Marsh knows all about that: “There are no such things. Humans are basically as you see them today. Those skeletons they’ve found, what’s the word? … they could have been deformed, diseased or something. I’ve seen people like that running round the streets of New York.”

There you go.

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