My take on this is that ALL science is based on uniformitarianism. When we see germs today, which of us will suggest that the Black Plague may have been caused by something else? When we discover the law of gravity in the 1600s, who of us will suggest that maybe it didn't exist before then?
Of course, this should not be confused with the 'constant rate' distortions of creationists (for example, the idea that the moon's current rate of movement away from the earth must've been the same throughout all of history).
This may seem like an assumption from a philosophical perspective, but it is one which ALL science makes.
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