You are so right! The irony here is that it takes as much “faith” (if not more!) to believe in evolution as it does to believe in a creator. Since neither can be proved by traditional scientific method (observation, testing of hypotheses, and ability to re-create the conditions to verify results), some have seen fit to re-define the term “science” in an attempt to promote their particular theory. Evolution is just that - a theory. Why should it be given more prestige than it deserves?
Flight is a scientific theory. Gravity is a scientific theory. Most of physics is scientific theory. If you do away with anything labeled 'theory' then you depopulate the science curriculum. Whatever's left will certainly be prestigious though, won't it?