Actually, dating a mild eruption within last few thousand years is often difficult because many of the dating techniques are only accurate to within a few thousand years. This is even more so in a desert, where eruption is less likely to encounter plants it could kill and bury, whose remains could then be carbon dated to give an accurate eruption date.
There are fresh looking volcanos whose most recent eruption is precisely dated to "anywhere between 730,000 years ago, when the earth's magnetic field last reversed polarity, and last few thousand years". The reason for the range is we don't have direct evidence it erupted in the last few thousand years, nor do we have direct evidence that its most recent eruption was not within the last few thousand years. All we know is its last eruption occurred after the magnetic field of the earth assumed its present polarity, which occurred 724,000 years before god created the earth whose magnetic field marked the volcano that stood on it, CG.
So the fact that we haven't found direct evidence pointing directly to an eruption within the last few thousand years does not in principle rules out the possibility that it could have erupted within the last few thousand years.
Next straw please, GC.
BTW, since when did a young earth creationist suddenly hang his argument, in principle, on accuracy of geological dating, GC?
There are fresh looking volcanos whose most recent eruption is precisely dated to "anywhere between 730,000 years ago, when the earth's magnetic field last reversed polarity, and last few thousand years". The reason for the range is we don't have direct evidence it erupted in the last few thousand years, nor do we have direct evidence that its most recent eruption was not within the last few thousand years. All we know is its last eruption occurred after the magnetic field of the earth assumed its present polarity, which occurred 724,000 years before god created the earth whose magnetic field marked the volcano that stood on it, CG.
So the fact that we haven't found direct evidence pointing directly to an eruption within the last few thousand years does not in principle rules out the possibility that it could have erupted within the last few thousand years.
Next straw please, GC.
BTW, since when did a young earth creationist suddenly hang his argument, in principle, on accuracy of geological dating, GC?
