There is one critical factor you have to keep in mind:

Creationists, by and large, do not give a rat's *** in hell about scientific inquiry, evidence, or even objective reality.

They simply do not care.

They have a predetermined conclusion, and there are no depths of outright dishonesty that they will not sink to in order to continue undermining anything that runs contradictory to said conclusion.

In short, creationists lie often, they lie consistently, and they lie 10 times more fervently when you call them on it.

It's just the nature of the beast. You can cite the mountains of clear, direct, and compelling evidence until the cows come home. They simply do not care. For the most part, they are pathologically incapable of perceiving a world in which life, the universe, and everything is not the special creation of whichever omnipotent supernatural entity they subscribe to.

This is because they know their audience. Creationism is appealing to people because it's an easy answer. You don't have to tackle loads of complicated scientific data from numerous disciplines in order to understand creationism. It's an appeal to magic, and that's all most people require.

To put it lightly, people normally aren't swayed by evidence. If you make something sound scientific enough, the layman typically isn't going to give it a second thought. The ideological lost causes at the Discovery Institute know this, and they exploit it well.

The key is to establish the inherent beauty in nature as it is. If you can portray the innate complexity of our surroundings by highlighting the actual mechanisms behind them (i.e. not magic), then some people eventually see that just because something doesn't have a grandiose, ego-driven, supernatural explanation, that doesn't mean it isn't special or wondrous.

People need to recognize that nature in and of itself is incredibly fascinating and humbling without spurious and superficial references to cultural deities. That's the key to making them respect science.