Speaking of Noah, one thing that's always struck me is why he was given a deadline at all. What would have happened if he went past it? Would "God" have extended it, or just gone "sorry, too slow" and fucked him over with the rest of the planet?
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.'