Morality and philosophy cannot be reconciled.
At its core level, the universe is arbitrary and whimsical. But all things that are extrapolated from those core arbitrary principles are consistent with those arbitrary principles, and therefore are themselves not arbitrary.
The universe is like a toy given to a small child. The child will spend time with the toy, learning its behavior and how to use it. Ultimately, the child may become bored with the toy. There are many more toys where it came from.
There is nothing sacred about this one embodiment that we call our universe. In a heartbeat there could be another reality.
The fabric of reality is maintained by the consensus of collective minds.
It is wrong to assume that what we now consider to be the full scope of the universe is in fact all, just as it was once wrong to assume that the earth was all.
Physics is an attempt to learn how we can change the physical reality with the tools we have to affect the physical reality. Religion or spirituality is an attempt to learn how we can change the spiritual reality with the tools that we have to affect the spiritual reality. As such, the conclusions that we draw from advances in knowledge in physics and spirituality are shaped by the form that we take in the physical and spiritual realities. We cannot assume that our conclusions are free of contamination by our basic limitations in perception. Regardless of deductions we make regarding things which are not superficially perceptible to us, all such deductions are founded on our limited perceptions and therefore inherit these limitations. We assume that all things can be deduced somehow, even if a fundamental piece of the puzzle is missing due to our limitations in perception.
We assume that the laws of the universe are not changing. This is about as naive as assuming that the laws of society are not evolving. Everything around us is evolutionary - why not the very principles upon which the universe is founded? I believe that the mystery of the universe is a moving target. We must watch it, and follow it, and expect it all to change. Indeed, is it relative to the extent that either our understanding of the universe is being refined or - alternatively - the universe itself is being refined? Does a fly that is hatched in summer and only lives while it is summer draw a false conclusion on the nature of the universe around it?
We have only perceived a small and isolated snapshot of the universe. Our understanding of the nature of the universe is limited by how much we've been able to observe. We draw conclusions about the universe before we exhisted, based on the assumption that we can merely extrapolate the principles we have determined from our brief history of studying the universe, and the assumption that the mechanics of the universe cannot be in a state of flux - flowing and evolving. We assume that the ways we think the universe works will always be the way that it works.
In truth, we can only attribute scientific understanding a modest level of utilitarian value and cannot attribute it pure and absolute value. Similarly, to religious or spiritual understanding. Scientific and spiritual understanding is the recipe for pleasing ourselves - the ingredients and directions.
The complexity of our explanation of the universe is a function of the number of pieces of the puzzle that are missing. We are finding obfuscated ways of explaining that our perception of reality is complete, when there should be an admission that there will always be something we cannot see. We could attempt to deduce what the full picture would be, but our deduction would always only be beholden to a recognition of that part of the incomplete puzzle that we do see, and this recognition is uniquely personal to our experience as beings and cannot be an absolute and impartial truth.
We can only explain a specific behavior to the extent to which that behavior is observed.
Science is in essence as much a yarn as is ancient mythology - it's just less ancient.