Reposting a comment from a similar discussion here...<p>Religion might just be the precursor to Science; a sapient species trying to make sense of their world and consciousness, plugging the holes in their understanding with whatever means currently at their disposal.<p>Unless they&#x27;re born with complete and accurate knowledge about everything in the universe, I think all intelligent life out there is going to have a religion or some form of superstition at some point in their civilization.<p>Hive-mind intelligences or strictly hierarchical biologies (e.g. queens&#x2F;workers&#x2F;drones) may not need concepts like morals or Law or guidance for social conduct, but they may still invent stopgap explanations on their way to understanding mortality and the weather and stars and such.<p>EDIT: &quot;Religion&quot; in this sense need not necessarily involve the concept of deities either. There are major religions in our own world that do not place a focus on higher beings.