Animism - The first global "religion"

[greyl]

My understanding of animism is:

-it has no dogma
-it is perfectly comfortable with and dynamically responsive to 'scientific' knowledge
-the indigenous people who practice animism wouldn't know what we meant by "religion"
-the 'god/s' are simply that which animate this place, not who tells us how we ought to live.
-Animism predates salvationist religion by a couple hundred thousand years.

Thoughts?

edit: Animism is to Hinduism, like Astronomy is to Astrology.