Not sure if this counts, but what springs to mind is the whole evolution thiing. Old Karol the Pole rather famously proclaimed it as true but I don't know what Palpatine and this new one think about it. Anything there for you?
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.'