Enormous resources are invested in pseudoscience that could be better invested in improving the health and education of the public. - Mordechai Ben-Ari

A scientific theory is a concise and coherent set of concepts, claims, and laws (frequently expressed mathematically) that can be used to precisely and accurately explain and predict natural phenomena.
A theory should include a mechanism that explains how its concepts, claims, and laws arise from lower-level theories.

Until creationists accept that their claims must be falsifiable and show how they could be falsified, creationism cannot be said to be a scientific theory.

Modern science explicitly and emphatically rejects teleology.