That's because "divine intervention" is the least plausible answer before literally every other avenue has been explored. It's the ultimate investigation stopper; once fixed upon, it completely negates any other explanation while at the same time explaining nothing itself.
So yes, were I to go back in time and witness these events unfolding just as the story says, I would have no choice but to accept that something out of the ordinary happened, at least based on what my senses tell me. But accounting for it, now that's where the real investigation starts. What I'm not going to do is reflexively shackle my belief to the superstition of the day surrounding the events - and I'm sure as shit stinks not going to fall on my knees and worship it, even if it was proven beyond question to be the work of Yahweh the Bloody Handed. Especially that.
So yes, were I to go back in time and witness these events unfolding just as the story says, I would have no choice but to accept that something out of the ordinary happened, at least based on what my senses tell me. But accounting for it, now that's where the real investigation starts. What I'm not going to do is reflexively shackle my belief to the superstition of the day surrounding the events - and I'm sure as shit stinks not going to fall on my knees and worship it, even if it was proven beyond question to be the work of Yahweh the Bloody Handed. Especially that.
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.'
