Of course there's not going to be any evidence of any of this cod-mystical shit. This guy fancies himself as a modern day Galileo among the ignorant masses, remember.
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.'