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An Open Letter to His Excellency, Romuald Wadagni, the President of the Republic of Benin, Regarding a Breakthrough Discovery at the Crossroad of Science and Faith

FAITH NEWS SERVICE – On a Mathematical Discovery That Bridges Science and Faith, and What It Means for a Nation That Shaped the Man Who Made It in the United States of America

Science180 – Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel, Founder – July 2026

His Excellency Mr. Romuald Wadagni

President of the Republic of Benin

Palais de la Marina, Cotonou, Republic of Benin

Your Excellency,

Allow me first to offer my sincere congratulations on your inauguration as President of our nation. It is with real pride that I follow, from the United States, the beginning of your service to Benin.

I write to you with deep respect, and with a sense of duty that transcends geography. Although I have lived and worked in the United States for more than twenty years, I remain, in heart and in history, a son of the Benin Republic. The education I received in Benin shaped the scientist I became, and I did not wish you to learn of a discovery I believe carries real significance for both science and faith through other channels or at a later hour. You deserve to hear it directly and respectfully from me.

I am writing to inform you that I have made what I believe is one of the most significant scientific discoveries of our generation. A discovery that has been covered by more than 1,000 media outlets globally, recognized by two independent award bodies in the United States in 2026, and is now reaching audiences on multiple continents. Benin Republic is where this story began, and I want your office to know that.

The Journey, From Benin to the World

I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Benin at the University of Abomey-Calavi, graduating first in my class, and those years laid the foundation for all that followed. I carried that foundation to the United States, where I live as a US citizen, earned my doctorate in plant, insect, and microbial sciences at the University of Missouri, again finishing first in my class among hundreds of peers. Before I had even completed my PhD, I was offered a position as a research scientist at a Fortune 500 company, a recognition that grew directly from the training Benin first gave me.

Today, I am an active member of twelve major American scientific societies (www.Israel120.com/affiliations), among them the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Microbiology, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, the American Society of Agronomy, the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Crop Science Society of America, the Ecological Society of America, the Soil Science Society of America, the American Physical Society, the American Philosophical Association, and the American Mathematical Society. These memberships reflect a career built on rigorous, cross-disciplinary scientific inquiry. Through the organization I founded, Science180 (www.Science180.com), I have spent the last 12 years working on a question that most scientists and theologians have quietly left unanswered.

The Discovery

For centuries, a prevailing assumption has shaped the way humanity approaches both science and religion: that the two are in fundamental conflict, that the more rigorously one examines the universe, the less room remains for a Creator. Entire educational systems have been built on that assumption. Generation after generation has been taught that choosing science means setting faith aside, and that holding faith means turning away from evidence. That assumption, I can now demonstrate, is mathematically false.

Working from peer-collected scientific data that has been publicly available for centuries, I derived an original formula for the formation timelines of 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. These figures follow the same sequence as the Book of Genesis, placing the Earth on the third day and the Moon and the Sun on the fourth. I present this as the conviction and conclusion of my work, arrived at from the data rather than from scripture, and I believe it is testable and open to honest examination.

This is not a theological argument. It is not an interpretation of scripture. It is a calculation, derived from scientific data that has been publicly available for centuries, but never properly analyzed. The result is testable, verifiable, and repeatable. It took twelve years of independent research, conducted without institutional pressure or religious sponsorship, to complete.

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.

In May 2026, this body of work received formal recognition from two independent bodies. Best of Best Review named me Best Scientist at the Intersection of Science and Faith in the United States of 2026. The Evergreen Awards named me Best Scientist Bridging Mathematics and Religion of 2026. My work has since been covered by more than 1,000 media outlets globally, including the Associated Press, Yahoo Finance, The Globe and Mail, and FOX, ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates across the United States.

What This Opens for the World

The significance of this discovery goes beyond resolving a centuries-old debate. When humanity operates under a false assumption that the universe and its Creator are separate subjects requiring separate minds, it places an artificial ceiling on what science can achieve and what faith can understand. Remove that ceiling, and both are liberated.

The deeper we understand the architecture of the universe, the greater the discoveries we can make: in medicine, in physics, in the technologies that improve and extend human life. And the more clearly we see that architecture is the work of a Creator, the more our relationship with God is not threatened by knowledge but deepened by it. Science and faith were never meant to be at war. My discovery proves they never were.

Your Excellency, Benin gave me the tools to think, to seek, and to believe that the two are not opposites. I carry that origin in everything I do, and I did not want this moment to pass without honoring it. It is my hope that this discovery brings some measure of pride to the nation that first taught me.

Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration and of my deep attachment to our homeland, Benin, le « Quartier latin de l’Afrique ».

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: Science180PresidentBenin@Science180.com

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.

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FAITH NEWS SERVICE – 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.

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