I believed all the YEC views not so long ago, and my relationship with God has not changed since then, only what evidence I've come across. I love the truth and seek it wherever it may be found. Have you studied the issue fairly, or only listened to one side of the story? The YEC explanation sounds good on the surface, but ignores so many details, so you need to check other sources. Hugh Ross is a old-earth Christian you might start with; he has some good books on the topic.
There is nothing infallible in the way YEC interprets the Bible. It reads in a modern use of language that was not the authors' intent. Ancient Hebrews weren't that into scientific explanations, and liked metaphor and allegory. When the Bible says all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain, it refers to all the earth the original audience knew, not all the earth we know. Could be the same for the flood. I don't know, but I do know one global flood would not create the pattern of fossils we find. Instead, we would find more land animals fossilized, and more 'out of place fossils.'
A good example of what happens when scientists try to come up with a natural explanation for something God supernaturally did is their explanations of how life began. They have a dozen different theories, each crazier than the last, and are making no real progress toward figuring it out. If God had created everything 6000 years ago, I think that is how the science of the age of the earth would look. Everybody would have a different number and a variety of wild speculations. But instead, everyone agrees the earth is about 4.5 billion years old. You have to be a real conspiracy theorist to think they all agreed on that number without the evidence supporting it.
