It is quite proper to speak of science as a practice - andto say that science as a method frequently relies on inference to the best explanation.
And what you seek to write off as a mere opinion is a fact. Creationism has utterly failed to explain these things in the full sense of explanation required by science. Evolution, on the other, hand explains - for instance - why remote islands have their own unique species, why taxonomy forms as neat a hierarchy as it does and why we found so many transitional fossils like icthyostega or ambulocetus. Creationism doesn't predict any of that - God can put species wherever He wills. God can create as He wills and there need be no convenient pattern. And there is certainly no need to find fossils indicating links between seperately created species.