Top Russian scientist fired for claiming ancestral sins shorten human lifespan

The Russian government gave no specific reason for his dismissal.

One of Russia’s top geneticists has been fired after comments about human lifespan sparked controversy in the country. Dr. Alexander Kudryavtsev, Director of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was dismissed after claiming that humans once lived 900 years, but now life is shortened due to the sins of our ancestors Position of Director of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.according to subwayHe made the remarks last year during the Third International Conference on Science and Theology “God-Human-World.”

Speaking at the conference in Minsk, the 60-year-old scientist said that “primordial, ancestral and personal sins” led to genetic diseases that shortened the time people lived for some 900 years before the biblical Flood era. lifespan. He also claimed that “children up to the seventh generation are responsible for the sins of their fathers,” according to Russian news site Meduza.

Sin, he pointed out, is responsible for mutations in genetic diseases that afflict modern humans.

Dr. Kudryavtsev explained: “I want to emphasize the harmful effects of so-called bad habits (theologians call them sins). They also affect the genome. ‌‌If your body, your gametes, have a mutation, it It will be passed on to your offspring, and there is nothing you can do about it. The conclusion is simple: if you want to have healthy offspring, don’t develop bad habits and don’t fall into sin.”

He said many atheistic scientists may blame radiation or contamination for genetic decline, however, he believed “this destruction was triggered by original sin, exacerbated by ancestral sin and personal sin.”

“I would like to state that what I express is my personal opinion. ‌This is in no way the position of the Russian Academy of Sciences, nor the position of the Church. “None of this will in any way affect the work of the Institute of Genetics,” he further said, adding that genetic mutations “caused by sin” could affect up to seven generations.

The Russian government gave no specific reason for his dismissal. However, Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Russian Church’s Committee on Family Issues, claimed that the dismissal was “motivated by religious beliefs and expressions” that “violated the ethics of the scientific community.”