Mirror UK
ByKelly-Ann Mills – News Reporter
11:35, 26 Jan 2024
A leading Russian geneticist has been fired after claiming humans once lived for 900 years but the lifespan is shortened now due to the sins of our ancestors.
Dr Alexander Kudryavtsev was sacked as head of the Russian Academy of Science’s Vavilov Institute of General Genetics. And despite the Russian Education Ministry not giving a reason for his dismissal, but his outlandish views – linked to his religious beliefs – are widely seen as the trigger.
At a conference in March the academic argued that the Universe, made by God in the process of creation, fell into “decay” due to the sins of people. In the deep past, people lived to be 900, he said, citing only “evidence” of a graph on the Internet. He claimed sin was the cause of mutations in genetic diseases harming modern man, he told his shocked audience in Minsk.