If you remember talking about the Poverty Point mound complex in Louisiana, here is a fun fact about them. To build the complex would have taken more than three million man-hours of labor with hundreds, maybe thousands, of people hauling dirt in baskets in an organized, planned effort.
Also an idea that I don't want to forget so I'm going to write it down. Is a function of religion to give us a soul? Do we have souls and what are they? Has science explained the soul? All of the religions I can think of deal with a soul, something spiritual. I think if we are going to call science a religion we should answer some of these questions.
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Hmm...interesting question! Though some religions don't believe in an afterlife (which would maybe give a point to having a soul), the ones that do often distinguish human souls from animal souls (if they believe that animals have souls at all). This would be another example of how religions separates humans from the "natural world." But I think you're right, if we're going to view anything - science, linguistics, music - as a religion, it has to explain the world on a spiritual level.
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