Depends what religion but yes many religions do seem to have a belief that their supernatural pantheon (or single supernatural being) were the ones to create life. Similarly many would claim that life itself is endowed with a special "spark" that man can not recreate, though this is less common than the former (though by no means terribly uncommon). To be a religion, or indeed religious, does not necessitate beliefs in either of those, though to be irreligious probably does.
""most" definitions" refers more to the virus that the same people created in a lab some 15 years ago now
http://www.nature.com/news/1998/031110/full/news031110-17.html
Whether a virus is alive is a debatable thing in biology, bacteria however, which the original link covers, is not questioned seriously by anybody about being alive.
If you want to go further back in history then a similar logic was once applied to organic chemistry,
http://www.pasteurbrewing.com/organic-chemistry-and-the-idea-of-the-molecule/ with the ideas of a guy named Berzelius being the foundation of a lot of that if you want to go further. A patently absurd and demonstrably false notion today. The stuff linked earlier it still relatively new, and indeed many thought it some time before it would or could happen (if it ever would) before Venter and co said "hold my beer".
At the same time there are religions and interpretations which change, religions with multiple broad and narrow interpretations (possibly to the point that they are separate religions), there are religions which excise sections of various texts, proclaim sections outdated and otherwise come to an opinion that is different than the ones held before.
State your opinion, many others have, however if in said opinion you are going to accuse me (and most of the world, and systems of laws and ethics) of being immoral or draw an equivalence to an immoral act then I am going to take exception. If you provide no reasoning for this, especially after being asked, then your opinions would have to be dismissed which I don't want to have to do. Similarly if you are so staunch in your beliefs I would like to know how you get there -- I have many unanswered questions and things to consider on this subject, the existence of an apparently immovable position then holds some serious allure and is worth exploring.
A choice thought at this junction. A man may state that his wife is the most beautiful in the world. Some have argued that religion should be treated the same way. Others still have argued that the former is a statement of your internal mind where I do not live, if however the religion declares something about the workings of the universe then as I live in the universe I have a stake in it and thus is can be debated.
If you are going to remain in a fixed philosophy on the nature of the universe and morality, one fundamentally different from my own, then barring my suddenly aligning with that (an unlikely event as the broad strokes of your apparent philosophy is not exactly a new concept to me) we are going to have to first take a long time to establish a framework before we can reasonably discuss this issue.
To answer the final question. I am always up for learning something new or gaining new understanding -- it seems to be a thing I greatly enjoy in life. If someone seemingly can offer that then I am going to ask questions.