That's why I've often said that it's impossible for a cretinist to shoehorn real scientific explanations into their fairy stories without pulling the ripcord labelled 'magic' at some point. I think the record is three sentences.
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.'