I hate to bring this up but actually he has one choice, of two options. He's still chosen to evade the question, though, for reasons that may never becpme clear.
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.'