"The dictionary defines religion and among the definitions is this :"
That's the fourth definition. You had to go to that to get a loose, mamby-pamby definition that makes anything someone pursues with more than halfhearted interest as a religion.
"The way the cause of Natural Selection plus Random mutation actually producing life is being actively pursued with such zeal and devotion, I would say it fits THIS definition."
Of course you would. You like meaningless postmodernist definitions.
"The way the cause of Natural Selection plus Random mutation actually producing life..."
Oh, missed that before. Nobody says that is how life formed.