why would you accuse God of ‘tricks’ regarding fossils? what do you base this on?
Do you believe that light from anything farther than 6,000 light years away was created in-transit? That would be another trick of God, too.
If the universe is only 6,000 years old, then why would God create it to appear that it's about 15 billion years old? The character of God is such that he would not play such tricks on us.
To be a young-earth creationist, you have to wring things out of scripture that aren't there; plus, you have to believe that God has tricked the human race into believing that the universe is 15 billion years old.
Who are you going to believe: all the evidence of the universe or a medieval interpretation of the scriptures?
I believe that God always tells the truth and that the truth points to a universe that is about 15 billion years old.