The point here is to deploy the Holmesian Maxim ("Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth") with Occam's Razor strapped to it. It might very well be that there is something going on that truly defies scientific explanation and is for all practical purposes miraculous; but if you don't put in the work to investigate the mundane options first, we'll never know.
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.'
