US EditionRussia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood
- Alexander Kudryavtsev, head of Russia's Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, was dismissed after claiming that humans once lived for centuries and blaming shorter modern lifespans on ancestors' sins.
- The Russian Orthodox Church criticized Kudryavtsev's dismissal as religious discrimination, citing the importance of ethics in the scientific community.
- This event highlights the tension between religious beliefs and scientific views in Russia, with historical suppression of genetics during Soviet times shaping the current debate.
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Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood
This mosaic in Basilica di San Marco, Venice, Italy, created in the 12th or 13th century, shows the Biblical Noah. MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday. Although the re…
If it weren’t for sin, people would live to 900, geneticist says before getting fired
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday.Although the report did not give a reason for the firing of Alexander Kudryavtsev, the influential Russian Orthodox Church called it…
Russian geneticist dismissed over controversial claims on sin-induced shortened lives
Russia's Ministry of Science and Higher Education has removed the head of a prestigious genetics institute, Alexander Kudryavtsev, who stirred controversy by asserting that ancient humans lived for centuries, and the reduced lifespan of modern humans is a result of ancestral sins.
Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and
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