This is why I see "God" as a placeholder for real answers at best and a major obstacle to proper investigation at worst. Once you remove the "God" factor from the equation, the questions either become far more straightforward to answer or disappear completely. It's a shift in perspective much on the lines of that from the geocentric model to the heliocentric one; all those awkward ad hoc epicycles simply fell away and the calculations just dropped neatly into place.
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.'
