The questions may seem different, but those differences are only a matter of perspective. To the target audience, "why is there something rather than nothing?" is equivalent to "why has my tooth been replaced by money?" You may think you have more sophisticated mysteries, but so would a five-year-old. And curiously, the answers to both sets are the same: "magic".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'