The irony is that for all practical astronomical purposes, from stargazing to navigation, regarding the sky as an actual dome with all the relevant objects attached to it is a simplistic convenience. It doesn't vindicate the biblical babblings about the nature of the Universe and make them automatically correct, except by way of completely coincidentally - those primitive scribes and whatnot weren't privy to any kind of divine insight or anything.
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.'
