معرفت کلامی

A group of neuroscience researchers have considered some religious experiences to be related to some brain diseases such as temporal lobe epilepsy, psychosis, impaired communication between the cerebral hemispheres and other parts of the brain, which is the result of their research on the neural correlates of the cognitive functions of the human brain. Another group has adopted an atheistic-neurological approach to prophetic revelation, citing these scientific results and some evidences about the physical states of the Holy Prophet when he received revelation. They have reduced the revelation of the prophets to a kind of religious experience caused by the complications of brain disease. This research first studies the findings of neuroscience knowledge about the relationship between religious experience and brain diseases, using a "descriptive" method, then it proceeds to discuss the main issue of this article regarding the implication of these findings on the claim of supposing revelation as a disease, using an “analytic” method; and in order to solve the problem of neurological atheism, it investigates the revelation characteristics of Quranic verses (such as being an immediate knowledge and the basic distinctions between the content of revelation and religious experiences). In general, prophetic revelation is completely different from other religious experiences and it cannot be considered as a result of brain disease at all.