Living approximately 2,000 years after the Apostles died leaves us with the disadvantage of not being able to interview them, but living approximately 2,000 years - 3,400 years after the Scriptures were written gives us the added advantage of being able to test many of the prophecies found within it.
It turns out, the Bible is the only Holy Book that can boast of a 100% accuracy rate on its prophecies (the obvious exception being prophecies which are not yet due to be fulfilled, particularly end times prophecies). The book of Daniel is so especially threatening to unbelievers that they actually claim it was written a lot later than it actually was. In other words, they claim it's not prophecy, it's history. It's that accurate. And of course, the arguments for that position don't hold up at all. By contrast, there are a grand total of zero Biblical prophecies that have ever been adequately shown to have failed*.
Now, if God can tell us the future in such perfect detail as to cause conspiracy theories about His prophets actually writing after the fact, it's a fair bet He can also tell us about the past. Another area on which the Bible never fails? History. So perfect is the Bible's history that secular historians are constantly catching up. For example, atheists once mocked the Bible because it spoke about the Hittites, which at one point in history were considered mythical. They left nothing behind, and the Bible was the only source that mentioned them, so it was suggested the Bible was a fairy tale. That is until the Hittites' capital city was rediscovered, and today we know lots about the "mythical" Hittites, whom it turns out the Bible didn't make up. In other words, while Darwin is still looking for his missing links, Jesus is quite happy to provide His.
Unfortunately, contrary to the inane rants of many an Evolutionist, you cannot scientifically assess history. History is based on the written record. You can study every plane on the planet, but the only way to find out the first plane was flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1903 by looking at the historical record. Similarly, the only solid way to know the origins of man is the historical record. But for obvious reasons, no man was writing about the origin of man when it happened. This is why Evolutionists don't actually have a conclusive story, or even a unified story, on our supposed Evolutionary ancestry. They know we came from somewhere, they have a few scattered bones lying around that they think might have something to do with it (and they're so desperate to do something to conclusively prove Evolution that they'll even turn the tooth of a pig into a thriving colony of monkey men), but really, they have nothing. But although no human observed the origin of man, the Creator of man obviously did.
A prophecy, by definition, is as yet unseen. No one who lived at the time a prophecy was given saw that prophecy come to pass (at least not immediately). But we are living in their future, and so we have proof that these things did happen exactly as God predicted. The origins of the heavens, the earth and all that is in them were also unseen by all except God and the angels. With a 100% accuracy rate for both the "future", which is now recorded past, and a further 100% accuracy rate of what always was the recorded past, it is not much of a stretch to cast out anti-scientific religions, like Evolution, in favor of the idea that "He's never been wrong before, why shouldn't we trust Him on this, too?"
There is one more thing that God tells us, which is really the point of the entire Bible. That is that we have sinned against Him, the required punishment being death. But it doesn't have to be your death. In the Old Testament, God prophesied of a coming Savior. In the New Testament, we see that Savior arrive. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth exactly as predicted, took the punishment for your sin, as predicted, and now, through faith in Him, you can be reconciled to God, just as predicted.
*Obviously, just as you can argue about any topic, there are ways unbelievers have tried to show a Biblical prophecy has failed. However, as with all objections to Scripture, these usually fail on some level, be it a failure to correctly interpret Scripture, or simply an incomplete knowledge of history.