I mean to say that evolution is fact and scientific theory, while creationism/ID is precisely what creationists/IDists claim that evolution is: “just a theory”. They use theory as in conjecture or guess, a definition that fits perfectly with their own worldview, but not actually with evolutionary theory.

So you’re absolutely right, and I never meant for anyone to think that I was saying that creationism is anything other than hypothesis.

Evolution IS a theory, the problem is that theists often don’t know the difference between theories and hypotheses, so please don’t give them more ammo by mistaking them as well.