Found this in the ED on Gaia. Your opinions? (Responses were from 2 different posters.)

it's just that I thought all of us believe in a religion mostly because we were brought up to be so.

i definitely think this.

*nod*

I'm tending to believe this too, Eric. Of course, one can learn another religion but I'm not convinced that it would develop in one's psyche organically.

The basic and perennial concept of Good and Bad, Right or Wrong is what evolved later as religion (remember Manichaeism?). If these babies can figure out good or bad in isolation then they have developed a religion on their own. Rest is all semantics if you ask me.

Someone said on the above site that babies would die without love, and I can't seem to disagree.

Not to stray too far from topic, but please do not confuse the concept of morality - knowing right and wrong, with religion-especially organized religion. They are vastly different things.

I am pretty sure however that this little Tarzan fellow would develop a string of question about his environment and try to come up with answers whether socialized or not. Would that count as a rudimentary religon/spiritualism if he hypothesized and chose a few answers to his questions?
hmmm....

Doesn't religion require communities to form, and not an individual? Where would Jesus and Buddha's founded religion be if they were born in the most desolate part of siberia?

And also, if you're completely alone, like you grow up with NO human contact at all, as this suggests, the formed 'religion' would be vastly different than what others would form with contact with other people. He might even think he's god.

I don't think one person could come up with "religion". Religion, is an organized construct. Whether he/she would develop a system of belief is another question altogether. I think that would depend on how much time he/she had to spend on basic survival, and whether or not he/she had time to reflect upon the eternal question of existence.