The Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education has fired the head of a prominent genetics institute that sparked controversy by claiming ancient humans lived for centuries and that modern humans' short lives are due to the sins of their ancestors. .
By: Clarion
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Although the reason for Alexander Kudryavtsev's dismissal was not given, the influential Russian Orthodox Church said it involved religious discrimination.
Gudryavtsev, head of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics at the Academy of Sciences, said in a lecture that before the biblical flood, people lived up to 900 years and that “original, ancestral and personal sins” caused life-shortening genetic diseases.
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He also said that “children up to the seventh generation are responsible for the sins of their parents,” according to the Medusa news website.
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