What came first? The chicken or the egg?

Question

I'm not being stupid but I wanna know people's views on this almost humorous rethorical question 8-)

It's not obvious - ho hum pig's bum! ^_^
First of all - how did fully grown chickens appear on the earth?! THEY COULDN'T! But how did the eggs arrive on it I have no idea...lol. So keep answering!

Uh-oh....well the last 3 long answers are really good...argh I don't know what to choose as best answer lol...ERMMM..

Answer 1

the egg

Answer 2

Apparently, it was the egg. Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics
at the University of Nottingham, said the pecking order was clear. The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So I would conclude that the egg came first."

Fellow "eggspert" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns agreed with the verdict.

Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, reasoned that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

The debate was organised by Disney to promote the release of the film Chicken Little on DVD.

Answer 3

Neither what come first was something that may have looked like a bird, or an animal of some kind, it would have reproduced and laid a spawn over the years this would have changed and the animal would have come the chicken, and the spawn become the egg. So there would have been an egg of some sort before the chicken. but it was not the egg of the chicken.

Answer 4

Bloody bloomin blinkin bloody. How many times has this question been asked?

Well anyway, there is now apparently some scientific oojimywotsit which says that the egg came first.
If you believe in creation,. even though you would believe that the animals were made first then yu would still have to accept that dinosaurs laid eggs before chickens even existed.
If you look at it from an evolution point of view, the egg still came first because something which wasn't a chicken must have laid the egg from which the first chicken hatched when it evolved from it.
Either way, the dinosaur egg was around before the chicken.

Answer 5

Christian Answer: The Chicken (after all, Adam just appeared one day)

Evolutionist Theory Answer: The Egg, chickens (or men) just don't appear out of thin air, so the egg would have had to come from something not quite a chicken.

Answer 6

The egg. It will have developed from a chain of single-cell organisms getting more and more complex as they evlove until they're complex enough to make small animals...then bigger ones, then, after lots of further time, something that develops into an early chicken. After lots more evolution this will have developed into the chicken we know, love and eat today!

...except if you're a christian, in which case God created shops and then we bought the eggs from there...or the chickens...but it doesn't matter which 'cos religios nutters don't care about the truth :-)

Answer 7

I read recently in the Times that a team scientists and philosophers have declared that the egg came first. If you think about it, the first chicken will have come from a genetic mutation, which made it different from its ancestral organism. Genetic mutations do NOT occur spontaneously in living creatures but in the mixing and crossing over of genes in fertilisation. Therefore a random mutation in the genetic material of the parents' DNA caused the egg to have different DNA to its' parents, creating the chicken.

Answer 8

It is not rhetorical;

The answer lays in the question. The chicken evolved from another species. The first chicken would have been hatched from an egg, the egg is that of another species.

Which came first the CHICKEN or the EGG?

The egg

Which came first the CHICKEN or the CHICKEN EGG?

The chicken

Answer 9

The answer is simple.

'Neither, they both arrived at the same time'

If you believe in God then they were created at the same time

If you dont, then all matter emerged from the Big Bang so the POTENTIAL for making the all the chickens and all the eggs happened at the same time.

Answer 10

easy the chicken of cause. you wont get an egg if there wasn't a chicken to lay it! it goes with out saying! that's like saying wot is the meaning of life? or if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around! does it make a sound? there is no answer just commonsense! hope i'v helped :)

Answer 11

Personally i think the chicken must have evolved from some other animal or something because an egg can't just apper out of knowhere