If all the energy that goes into distorting reality to prop up increasingly irrelevant mythology was channelled into proper research, we'd probably be out exploring the Galaxy at this point.
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.'