DAILY STAR
A mad Russian scientist has been canned for claiming humans once lived for 900 years but our longevity was curtailed by human sin.
Dr Alexander Kudryavtsev, 60, stated that humans today live shorter lives before of the sins of our ancestors. The crackpot geneticist was the head of the Russian Academy of Science’s Vavilov Institute of General Genetics in Moscow when he said that “up to the seventh generation are responsible for the sins of their fathers”.
Although the Russian Education Ministry failed to give reason for his recent dismissal, it is thought that bizarre comments given during a conference in March were the final nail in the coffin. While there, the academic argued that the universe “made by God in the process of creation”, fell into “decay” due to sin.
He said: “In the deep past, people lived to be 900. Sin was the cause of mutations in genetic diseases harming modern man.”
But after the event, when challenged by Russian media, he hit back and claimed that he “wanted to emphasise the harmful influence of so-called bad habits – what theologians call sin”.
He said: “They also affect the genome. If a mutation occurs in your body, in your gametes, it will be passed on to your offspring, and nothing can be done about it.
