A new science for our classrooms?

The details are staggering. About 12,800 quadrillion atoms per second must be carefully assembled for the human body’s blood and another 80 trillion cells “have to be maintained, repaired, or replaced to keep us alive” explains a new book, So, Who IS this “GOD” of our Nations, And What Does He DO for Us? (written by Graham McLennan and Thomas Rogers).

President of Reality Research & Development Inc., Thomas Rogers insists that more of this truth is needed in our classrooms. He quotes I.L. Cohen, a scientist working with probabilities, who states “when the RNA/DNA system became understood, the debate between Evolutionists and Creationists should have come to a screeching halt.” Obviously, that hasn’t happened. A press release says Rogers “aims to change the field of science by showing the essentiality of intelligent works by the supernatural force commonly known as ‘God.’”

Rogers believes Canadian students have a right to be taught more about the God upon whom this nation is founded. The 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms begins with the words “whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law…” Rogers came to faith in Jesus at age 47, long after his student days. He’d won science awards since high school. He became an engineer before he was 30 and used his entrepreneurial talents to build two successful manufacturing and construction firms. “My curiosity about how God builds us has now become an obsession,” says Rogers.

The proposed text, featuring ‘Atomic Biology’, focuses on how cells get built using atoms. Rogers notes that atoms need to be precisely assembled into cells. “The average brain can store 300 years of recorded digital TV programs in a small area and scientists are trying to duplicate that storage capacity…. With all the bio-mimicry of what God has already done… we can’t even make a live protein from elements while God cranks them out by the zillions.” Rogers says that Creation Science deals with the general question of origins, while Atomic Biology deals with the specifics, starting with atoms. 

While Canada doesn’t have the same legal requirements for separation of religion and state as in the United States, there is concern that the hostile actions of the ACLU and its Canadian affiliates in taking teachers to court, for mentioning intelligent design, is impacting the freedom experienced by Canadian educators. American Creationist, Craig Hubler, notes that a US 1948 court decision, which excluded religious instruction from public schools, has made it almost impossible to mention Creation vs. Evolution south of the border on secular campuses.

Rogers would love to replace Darwinism in the classroom, and is looking for scientists and educators who would endorse his work. He would like his text introduced at a Grade 5 level. “Material things are made of atoms,” Rogers explains, “including every one of our body parts. Where do they come from? From what we eat or breathe in. Where does that come from? ‘From the soil of gardens, fields, and orchards, and the fresh air from plants that take in carbon dioxide and produce fresh oxygen’ (p. 123). Ultimately, we are dust as the Bible claims.”

The first part of ‘Atomic Biology’ demonstrates how much God is involved in the Judeo-Christian foundation of our western nations. Chapter 6 focuses on Canada. When the text moves to the science, it presents the reality that “atom assembly into cells and us is not just intelligent in design but also intelligent work and cells need the breath of life to perform.”

Rogers passionately rattles off his findings. “A 70 kg male needs 2.3 million new red blood cells per second. He needs 280 million “molecules of hemoglobin and each of those requires about 10,000 atoms…6,400 quadrillion right atoms per second have to be found in our food, sorted, selected, grasped, precisely placed, fastened with life breathed into the inanimate atoms, the new cells delivered into our bloodstream, and the old ones removed and placed into our waste system.”

If nothing else, Rogers stimulates readers to embrace how fearfully and wonderfully we are made. But he aims to do much more.