We creos MUST relent to an old earth/universe. The scientific evidence is irrefuteable.
For YEC to maintain that God created it to look and be immensely old, but in fact it is not immensely old, is a position that does not deserve respect. This is a position of pure dogma.
There are eons and eons of time between Gen.1:1 and 1:2 according to the best theological scholarship. This doesn't mean 4-6 billion years necessarily.
I agree with you, God is guilty of fraud IF the YEC's are right - but they are not.