The world’s most famous living condemned heretic says, “The world was not created in six days and God rested on the seventh. It was not created in the churning of a giant pot… And regarding ‘how shall we live,’ I don’t want answers that come from some priest. [But] as a writer I find I need [religion] to explain the world I’m writing about. As a person I don’t need it and as person I do. I would agree, that tension is irreconcilable. [But] it’s just there. It’s just so.”