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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 religious discrimination.

Kudryavtsev, who headed the Russian Academy of Science’s Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, made a presentation at a conference in 2023 in which he said people had lived for some 900 years prior to the era of the Biblical Flood and that “original, ancestral and personal sins” caused genetic diseases that shortened lifespans.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The thing that gets me is this whole god thing has never in hundreds of years shown or done anything of biblical proportions and we are supposed to just believe it? Prove to me it's real. I love how the defense for this is how you need to believe for it to be real but I'm sorry that's not how that works. If you tell me you have a quarter in your pocket I'm but never show me it why would I believe you?

Why should we have to prove nonexistence when they can't prove existence? If there is no proof, I simply can't believe it.

But that's me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yup. And having a quarter in a pocket is a perfectly reasonable thing that is not only possible, but happens all the time. And even then, there's no real reason to believe it.

Now do the same thing for a claim of the supernatural.

[–] SpezBroughtMeHere -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So what imperial evidence would answer your questioning without you trying to debunk that? I mean if God literally spoke to you, would you accept that or were you just hallucinating?

[–] afraid_of_zombies 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know. Given that your skydaddy is all knowing shouldn't it know? Shouldn't it be sitting in heaven now thinking "oh man this one is searching for me and not finding. Let me do the one thing that would convince him". You know exactly like the road to Damascus Experience or Thomas putting his hands on Jesus?

[–] SpezBroughtMeHere 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, I didn't ask what God would do to prove himself. I asked is there anything that would change your mind or is it made up and there's nothing that would get you to change your beliefs? I have to ask because I'm not all knowing, I rely on conversation to get info.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 11 months ago

Right but it shouldn't be up to us. If there is an all knowing being it knows the answer to this question and it chooses otherwise. I assume you are Christian if not I am sorry for my wrong assumption. Why doesn't the all knowing being of the universe not do whatever it would take to convince people that it exists to save all those billions from hell, when it knows exactly what is required?

It did it for Paul, it did it for the doubters around Gallie, it did it for Thomas. Why play favorites? Especially as an all knowing being it knows what will happen if it does?

Almost as if none of this bullshit happened and James was running a cult.