2006-06-07 12:38:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
These are quotes from the book, Do Fish Drink Water?
"If you are a creationist, you believe God created man and all of the animals on the earth. It wouldn't make a lot of sense for God to create an egg, so the chicken must have come first. After all, if God created the egg first, there would be no hen to hatch it or to care for the chick once it was hatched"
"If you are an evolutionist, you believe that animals evolve into different species over time. Therefore the chicken must have evolved from a former chicken-like creature ((actually it evolved from reptiles like the T-rex)) At some point in time this creature laid an egg that hatched into a modern chicken. It couldn't have been a chicken egg, because there was no such thing as a chicken yet. The first chicken egg could only have been laid by the first chicken."
Both answers are the same depending if you're an evolutionist or a creationist. The chicken came first!!! =)
2006-06-07 12:58:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.
Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.
Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.
2006-06-07 20:11:50 · answer #2 · answered by lil_miz_janee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer my fried chicken with a side order of fried egg.
Fried chicken first.
This is the third such question I've encountered here today.
Have you no originality? Perhaps you're the egg?
2006-06-13 06:46:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created the chicken,then the rustler they have sex and then the egg come in place,to have lil chick's
2006-06-07 21:45:56 · answer #4 · answered by Naomi w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple, The rooster "came" first!
I guess you never heard of the birds and the bees?
2006-06-07 19:54:45 · answer #5 · answered by bugsie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ate the chicken and then I ate his leg
2006-06-07 19:42:02 · answer #6 · answered by geejtopia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question! I wish I knew!
2006-06-07 19:41:22 · answer #7 · answered by colinsmom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋