The thing about creationism is that it's also dumbed down religion, and not only unsupported by the Bible, but at variance with the more complex bits of Christian teaching.
It's a symptom as much as a cause.
A common term used by the subset of Christians who push this is "comfort". They don't want kids who question things, whereas anything that resembles science is a form of argument. Science is not the truth, it is how we work out what the truth might be.
Kids vary hugely in their ability to "do science", and of course many will end up working in a shop or driving a minicab. For far less than 1% of the population does the shape of the Earth matter, let alone competing ideas about the interpretation of the fossil record.
The "legacy" of science teaching for these kids as adults should be the ability to think about evidence, as well as some "life skills" . To me the ability to change your mind in the face of such evidence is as much a life skill as learning to change a plug.
That's part of the problem I have with "applied science". It cannot help but be a list of facts, which is bad enough ,but those facts will go out of date quickly, leaving them with no ability to learn new things as they come along.
Also the set of "useful" scientific skills is simply not predictable.
During the birth of DS1, after the equipment had gone wrong for the dozenth time, my self control collapsed, and I snatched the foetal monitoring gear out of the hands of the midwife. The connection wires had come out, and she'd never learned how to deal with this, whereas I'd learned that before she was born. That does not make her a witless incompetent, nor me a master of medical technology. She'd left school (I guess) more than a dozen years earlier, and no one could have predicted that being useful.
Personally I would ban the teaching of computers in schools tomorrow. This is the most extreme of the bogus "applied" subjects.