From John Miles
So the prophet Ezekiel may have been an epileptic
(17 November, p 20)?
What balderdash under the name of science.
The scientific dogma that everything in the world can be explained naturally
is more faith-based than religion itself. Diagnosing diseases correctly is hard
enough with living patients, never mind people whose writings are all we
have.
An alternative diagnosis, given the symptoms described, could be narcolepsy
or perhaps even propheticepsy. Or perhaps it was God who suffered from temporal
lobe epilepsy, and Ezekiel was just delivering his message. Then again, people
with a propensity for lengthy writing and dream-like delusional blather can be
found all over the scientific community.
Salt Lake City, Utah
