Science is searching for the creator and for the soul, as well as the explanation of our origin and destiny. The social sciences now rival religion for they address human needs with such success that some churches are being abandoned for humanistic lifestyles and personal development movements while others turn existential and adopt the newest secular psychologies, healing therapies and formulas for success. Religion criticizes science, philosophy, everything including how one should live their sexuality. Philosophy, too, speaks to everything and on anything it wishes to address, for human thinking can and does pronounce on anything within its ken. Where Philosophy, Religion and Science differ sharply is in the source they go to for their claims, in the methods they use to obtain and promote what they hold as true and in the criteria they employ to verify and confirm their claims.
Religion claims the source of what it teaches is a god.
Philosophy and Science do not make this extraordinary claim. Religion is readily recognized when one introduces the claim of a beyond or of a supernatural being into any issue, any conversation. Science goes to sense observation of the physical world, to nature in any and all of its manifestations as the source and stuff of the truth it claims it has found. The thinker, that is the philosopher, critiques or even goes beyond the claims of science and religion for he or she is not limited to the givens of sense experience nor confined to revelations believed to come from the beyond. Its source, for whatever its power or weakness, is the human mind which seeks answers and meaning in any and every way it can.