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.
"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.