I saw that in several of your posts you stated that 'God would have to be a trickster' [for the earth to be less than billions of years old].
An alternative explanation is that one could have been 'tricked' by believing unproven presuppositions. E.g., why would one expect the radioactive decay rates to have remained constant? Particularly given that most processes we observe in nature are exponential.
Also, how do we know the radioactive heavy elements always existed on earth? E.g., God tells us that there was a catastrophic event that occurred thousands of years ago where the earth was ripped up (all the fountains of the deep were opened up), and the entire surface was covered with water for nearly a year. What if one of the outcomes of the shear forces from this event created the radioactive elements (a theory from Walter Brown)?
Why treat the radioactive decay rates as something sacrosanct (and not being subject to change), but at the same time ignore other evidence that point to a younger than billions of year old earth: the existence of comets (dirty snowballs that orbit the Sun); the salinity of the ocean (given the rates of salt that flows into the ocean minus that which is removed); the position of the moon (given that it recedes from the Earth every year); the existence of the Earth Magnetic field (even though we know it is declining); the existence of helium in the atmosphere (given the escape and generation rates); etc.
I understand that the existence of comets are waved away by the claim that there is a mythological Oort Cloud that kicks comets into the Sun's orbit every so often. And the Earth Magnetic field exists because there is a perpetual motion dynamo machine in the core of the Earth which -- when the field declines enough - it will just reverse at full strength, and start all over again...
God is not tricking us, we trick ourselves.
Nice try, really. I agree, God is not a trickster. And the Physics explaining many of the systems we observe is not tricking us. There are a few items we do not yet have a good handle on ... the true nature of time being one.