No friend your confusing two ideas. One can arrive at belief in an infinite, intelligent source of the universe and life apart from the Bible.
Sure, I'll buy that.
YEC on the other hand is something that the Bible specifically claims to be true about the universe and life.
I'd amend this statement slightly: YEC is something that
particular individuals claim the Bible claims to be true about the universe and life.
Those of us who espouse YEC are saying that we believe that there is nothing observable through scientific observation which contradicts the Bible, but rather it harmonizes with it if one examines it honestly.
I believe that you believe this. But it hasn't borne out in practice. As I already pointed out, YECism is contradicted by every branch of the natural sciences, plus human history to boot.
I don't believe for a second that believing in YECism involves an "honest" examination of the evidence. Rather, it starts with a particular interpretation of the Bible, then force fits or otherwise ignores anything else to the contrary.
Again, I can point to multiple independent lines of evidence that demonstrate a 4.6 billion year old Earth and solar system. I can't point to a single independent line of evidence that points to a 6000 year old Earth and solar system.
A child sitting on the beach and watching the ocean gradually move grains of sand can't tell if all that sand got dumped there in one big storm or over millions of years of gradual ocean churning. Likewise we can't tell how old something is or is not based on what we observe right now.
This isn't correct. We can in fact tell how old something is based on what we observe now. We observe existing process and their outcomes, and then extrapolate based on other observed evidence of said processes.
Even your own example of a giant storm dumping a huge pile of sand versus gradual build-up of millions of years would yield different outcomes.
A great example is something like the Lake Suigetsu varve chronology. Here you have an example of an observable process, specifically the depositing of alternating layers of specific composition based on seasonal cycles. And then you that outcome of said process, which is a series of alternating layers based on those compositions. Counting said layers yields an age of at least 50,000 years if not older. There is a good write up on it here:
Lake Suigetsu and the 60,000 Year Varve Chronology It's the perfect example of something which contradicts YECism and indeed shouldn't even exist if the YECist claims of history (particularly the global flood) were true.
But we have nothing that proves it did not happen the way the Bible claims, and some things which suggests it did.
If you perform an honest examination of the evidence, you'll loads of contradictions as a result of scientific inquiry and observable evidence versus what YECists claim.
I already gave you some examples in my prior post. Do you need them repeated?