Ultimately any purpose is circular because there's always another why. And science doesn't necessarily describe chaos. There are some questions science just do

Ultimately any purpose is circular because there's always another why. And science doesn't necessarily describe chaos. There are some questions science just doesn't answer and doesn't need to. We might never get the tools to peer past the boundaries of space and time, so speculation made by scientists in those areas is still kind of religious or at least not science. Religion can simply say God created everything last Thursday as if it had always been, and science has no refutation for that and doesn't need one. Therefore I disagree with your analysis just because currently you can make that analogous comparison. There's probably always something like that because social discourse will spread current science to religion and vice versa, but they do not really need to compete. Also science has a chance of solving it's split but religion and philosophy will bang on about consciousness forever.