Not only all that, but another vital aspect of the scientific method is consistency. If the findings pertaining to one area of science fall within a range established by another, independent, area, the likelihood of the reliability of those findings and the science behind them increases immensely. To borrow from a fairly classic example, it's notable that all new fossil discoveries thus far have been consistent with the geological data, there's been nothing more recent than it should be (in fact, the very opposite) - something that would be expected given the nature of evolution in the fossil record. In other words, a single pre-Cambrian rabbit fossil would blow our conception of evolution right out of the sky.
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.'