I understand, and to a degree I can certainly see your point of view with abit of agreement.
General public:
We must accept that we live in a world, today. Which is activily seeking to undermine Christianity and it's principle heritage.
I've seen several times where mythology has been vendicated by science.
PP, whats wrong with the gnostic's?
My current bedside reading is a book on the Trojan War. For years it was thought the city of Troy was pure myth. Now it seems there's sufficient evidence to the contrary. The War itself may have been a complete Homeric fabrication (not far enough into the book to say one way or the other yet), but if the city was real, why can't the war be? On some level it's ludicrous to believe that it NEVER saw war. We're talking about a time where diplomacy consisted of arranged marriages and war, after all.
Also, an interesting point: both Paul and Homer use the "Achaen" (I think I've spelled that correctly) label for a group of people.
The list goes on. But has a sociological historical text, I think the Bible ranks up there with any other contemporaneous texts in terms of accuracy and validity. As a science text though, not so much.