SCIENCE & FAITH | OPEN LETTER
AMERICA AT 250 | ORIGINS & ACCOUNTABILITY
An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump Regarding a Breakthrough Discovery at the Crossroad of Science and Faith
On a Discovery That Changes the Oldest Debate in American Life, and What America’s 250th Birthday Demands of It
Science180 – Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel, Founder – July 2026
Mr. President,
There is a question that has circled every serious civilization since the first one looked up at the sky and asked where it all came from. It is a question that has divided courts and churches, split families at dinner tables, and defined some fault lines of American public life for more than a century. It is the question of origins. Where did the universe come from? Where did life come from? And does the answer leave any room for God?
I write because, after twelve years of independent research, I believe I have an answer worth your attention. Not a theological claim, but a mathematical one, reached from the data itself. I believe it carries meaning not only for science and faith, but for the nation you lead as it reaches its 250th year.
For roughly 3,500 years, the Biblical account of creation has been read as scripture. I set out to ask whether its sequence could also be tested against the data.
My name is Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel (www.Israel120.com). I was born in the Benin Republic, trained in Africa and in the United States, and I have spent the last decade working outside the walls of any institution, funded by no religious body and beholden to no academic faction, to build what I believe is the most significant scientific framework of our generation. The organization I founded, Science180, www.Science180.com, represents the conviction that the conventional scientific process for explaining origins is not merely incomplete. It is pointed in the wrong direction.
I am a member of twelve major American scientific societies (www.Israel120.com/affiliations), among them the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the American Mathematical Society, and the American Chemical Society. In May 2026, my work was recognized with two awards: Best Scientist at the Intersection of Science and Faith in the United States of 2026 by Best of Best Review, and Best Scientist Bridging Mathematics and Religion of 2026 by the Evergreen Awards. My books have been covered by more than 1000 media outlets globally, including the Associated Press, Yahoo Finance, The Globe and Mail, Business Insider, Digital Journal, and FOX, ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates across the country. I write to you not as a theologian, a lobbyist, or an activist, but as a scientist with a result I believe deserves an honest hearing.
The Finding
Using an original formula I derived from peer-collected cosmological data, not from scripture, I calculated formation timelines for the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun. Based on my findings, the Earth was completed in 2.82 days, the Moon in 3.32 days, and the Sun in 3.69 days.
Earth: 2.82 days. Moon: 3.32 days. Sun: 3.69 days, in the sequence Genesis describes.
The Book of Genesis places the Earth on the third day and the Sun and Moon on the fourth. My formula arrives at the same order. I present this as the conviction and conclusion of my work: a calculation worked from the data toward its result, which happens to match what the Scriptures described long ago. I do not ask anyone to take it on faith. I ask those with scientific curiosity to test it honestly and say whether it holds.
Available on Amazon, IngramSpark, and Science180.com, my latest book, Boldest Scientific Formula of God and Creation, presents the framework in language that even laypeople can understand. A discovery of this magnitude does not belong only on a shelf.
America at 250: The Question Beneath the Celebration
On July 4, 2026, the United States of America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding. Beyond the fireworks and fairs, this moment also invites a measure of honesty.
America has always held God close in its public language. “In God We Trust” appears on every dollar bill. The Declaration of Independence appeals to the Creator as the source of the rights it claims. Yet in the classrooms where we raise our children and in the textbooks that shape how the next generation understands the universe and their place in it, the case for a Creator has quietly fallen out of the conversation, while evolution and the Big Bang stand largely unquestioned. I do not write to condemn anyone for that. I write to ask whether the question might be reopened, and the evidence weighed on its merits.
“In God We Trust” is on the dollar. The deeper question is whether He is still welcome in the places where we form young minds and recycle old ones.
The debate between Church and State has long been treated as a zero-sum conflict, as though acknowledging God in public life requires surrendering to rational inquiry, and as though rigorous science necessarily pushes faith to the margins. I believe that framing is mistaken. It was never a choice between reason and faith, but a gap in analysis that can be closed.
There is also a more uncomfortable truth worth naming. The distance from God is not only found where one expects it. Some churches, too, have leaned so far toward the prevailing billions of years account that they unfortunately hold the creation narrative lightly, figuratively, as if the Biblical account of creation has no scientific power, or as if Moses did not tell us a chronological story of creation, or as if we can put science above the word of God. The issue, then, is not any one group, but a habit of quiet compromise. A nation that prints God’s name on its money can also honor Him in the institutions that shape its future.
The Deeper Question, and the Invitation
For too long, the public conversation has been fixed on the surface conflict between believers and unbelievers, between science and scripture, between the laboratory and the sanctuary. The deeper matter is simpler and harder: the willingness to follow an argument wherever it leads, rather than resting in a comfortable consensus.
The framework I have built, which I call Science180 Cosmology, is open to everyone. It is meant to be engaged by atheists, agnostics, rationalists, and devout believers alike, because the data asks nothing of anyone’s denomination. It asks only for their attention.
America, will you answer the call not only to celebrate 250 years of freedom but also to ask what that freedom is truly for?
Mr. President, you lead a country that is, by its own founding documents, acknowledges the Creator.
You lead it at a moment when this work has reached the world and is asking to be examined. If the mathematics holds, and I invite serious scrutiny to determine whether it does, then a question long deferred in our classrooms and public squares deserves a fair hearing, in the 250th year of a nation that named the Creator at its founding.
Science180 is glad to brief your administration, speak with educational leaders, engage the scientific community, and reach audiences across the full spectrum of belief and skepticism. The world is paying attention. My hope is that America’s leadership helps usher in this new era thoughtfully, so the conversation about where we come from can be had openly, with honesty and goodwill.
To God be the glory. God bless America
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel, PhD
Founder, Science180
Best Scientist at the Intersection of Science and Faith in the United States of 2026 – Best of Best Review
Best Scientist Bridging Mathematics and Religion of 2026 – Evergreen Awards
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.Science180.com | www.Israel120.com
FURTHER READING
Dr. Israel’s latest book, Boldest Scientific Formula of God and Creation, is available on Amazon, IngramSpark, and through Science180.com. For his full biography, interview requests, speaking engagements, and press materials, visit science180.com/mediakit. Press coverage: science180.com/prlist. Personal site: israel120.com.