Uniformitarianism & Age of Creationists' Earth

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obvious Child, in message 1, writes:Granny Magda made an interesting point on imageinvisible's post:

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This sounds just like the nineteenth century uniformitarianism that you are so critical of.

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Original SourceCreationists often attack uniformitarianism, yet seem to have no problems using it in their own claims for the age of the Earth. Yet when attacking uniformitarianism, they claim that a different set of physics existed prior to the entry of the current laws of physics yet can provide no good reasoning or evidence for this.My question is, how can you determine the age of the Earth when your belief operates on the premise of two different sets of laws of physics, one of which cannot be determined in the way it functions? And are the dates given by creationists who DO use uniformitarianism essentially hypocritical?