The Modern Prometheus. A King James quoting.

Pastor was on a riff about the people being of one accord, thinking they would upstage God, Himself.  It was a collective Original Sin repeat, man trying to be God, trying to supplant God, further, trying to know and do God-like things.

It was Genesis 11, in the King James Only Baptist church.  "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

See also.

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.  Man attempting to create man.

Sir Isaac Newton fancied himself a Theologist rather than a scientist.

Albert Einstein's equations were within a few years of publication solved and refuted by a Catholic clergy member.

"Go to, let us go down, and there, confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

Nature looked back at man, ready to perhaps spit or bite out at him, as he presumed and tried to ascend.  Such was the way, too, with the HG Wells speculation about the dark side of the moon.

Such too was the way with Pink Floyd's speculation about the Dark Side of the Moon.

But just as man was tasked to name the animals, so to does he learn and study to become a better husbandman, though these days, there are people doing something called "pure research".

Or as one KJV writer says, "curse anything that separates me from the love of God".