Can you connect the dots for me on that one? I'm not seeing the analogy.
The study of evolution and/or history are both the study of the past, and both only useful indirectly.
Note this is not an opinon re: evolution, just an opinion that I disagree that the study of evolutionary process (or whatever happened) itself is useless.
Obviously, something is going on and/or went on to give us these sequential fossils, and to refuse to study it because "it is useless" is to ignore something God did, merely because one disagrees with the prevailing explaination.
To me, that is spitting in God's eye.
He created a wonderful Universe. We should explore it high and low, past and future.