What value do you see in studying theology in concerns to Christianity?

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So, you're saying, definitively, that religion was not used as a way to understand the world around them, in a scientific way? I'd really like to see what you have to back that up.

Because there's nothing akin to a scientific way of thinking or understanding of the world found in religious myths, and books, etc... Science is a way of looking at the world in some sort objective mechanical fashion, it churns a certain kind of thinking or systematic reasoning through certain elements of the world. 

Religious writing don't look, sound, or talk, the way we do when we talk about science, or sciencey things (AIG and others aside). They resembles whats more akin to novelists perception of reality, than a scientist.

The value we place on science, is primarily on the sort of reasoning and type of thinking it fosters, any particular truth discerned by it, only as valuable as its use. We don't teach children evolution, just for the sake of holding it as true, but rather to understand the sort of reasoning, and thinking that drove such conclusions, so that they can adopt it and apply it to other areas of life.

Truth in religious world, a telelogical view of reality, is seen as containing a purpose in and of itself, reveals how we ought to live, etc.. Where as truth in a scientic sense has no purpose, individuals human subscribe or use it for some purpose or the other, but in and of itself is purposeless meaningless. The truth of evolution no more meaningful than the truth of a rock rolling down a hill.

Also, I've never heard someone claim that people in "the past were some kind of mutants, with very little relationship to us now."

People just other them, what do some illiterate goat herders have to tell us about ourselves?