I believe it was also Asimov who said something like "The battle between science and religion was won the day churches began putting up lightning conductors."
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.'