Astyrophile writes:
How do you know this?
Second, do you personally have an understanding of what these spiritual principles are? If so, what comment can you make on 'the universe, its beginnings, structures etc.' on the basis of these spiritual principles, and can you show how this comment follows from these principles?
There are principles of existence and or life that are up held by the laws of the land.
Murder, stealing, adultery, lying, coveting, disrespect for parents and authority, disrespect for life, property and the qualities of life. These violate life and therefor life could not have come forth without these protections.
They speak of equality, respect for leadership and life sources, having enough but not with greed, sharing, mutual relationships, boundaries, etc all these are largely obeyed by the animal kingdom as necessary for their own survival.
These principles can be taken further into the material world, with factors like harmony, consistency, dependability, precision and accuracy, balance, economy, etc which apply to the laws of physics and are demonstrable through out the universe. If it were not the case, a method of study cannot be applied to a totally unpredictable material world.
The universe and all of its manifestations lean towards order, beauty and purpose, - qualities that cannot be reproduced without extremely high intelligence, design, artwork, organisation, wisdom and purpose.
These are spiritual principles and there is no evidence that any universe could exist without them.
The laws are designed to have a support system in place for all things, and that all things are in harmony through reflection and replication of those support systems.
The universe is made on the principles of allowing energy to operate at its lowest and most economic level. The highest energy is the most complex, intelligent and permanent, while the subjective forces are systematically simplified at each level down, into temporal categories.
This means, as proven by science, that the universe has much more energy both in amount and complexity to support what we call matter, which is relatively simple and less powerful, and yet from this relative simplicity (because it is not simple on any level as far as we are concerned) we have designer quality life forms.
So at the beginning of our universe we have intelligence and power, and in the product of the universe we have intelligent life.
But only Intelligence produces intelligence, not greater but lesser, yet with a support system and authority based on Love.