More like: "They sinned, then built cities and doubled down on the sinning."
Notice there's a LOT of fruit-eating beasties, from fruit flies to monkeys and fruit bats, but not one them got to that forbidden fruit before humans .. or weren't arrogant enough to think they deserved it.
Remember folks, that story in Genesis basically says that Civilization IS the curse God laid on Man
He repented of the Flood because he wanted Man to do his own asshole self in
"They built a city, and then they sinned." - The Old Testament: Abridged
More like: "They sinned, then built cities and doubled down on the sinning."
Notice there's a LOT of fruit-eating beasties, from fruit flies to monkeys and fruit bats, but not one them got to that forbidden fruit before humans .. or weren't arrogant enough to think they deserved it.