2006-06-08 07:28:28 · 8 answers · asked by curiousgeorge2 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
The chicken. Because Noah did not take any eggs in his boat.
2006-06-09 15:03:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's official - the egg came before the chicken!
May 26, 2006 18:21 IST
The question 'What came first, the chicken or the egg?' is no longer open for debate, for a philosopher, a geneticist and a chicken farmer, claim to have found the answer.
And, the three say that the egg did indeed come before the chicken.
Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, said that the answer to the age-old question lay in genetics.
He points out that the living organism inside an eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it turned into, and since genetic material does not change during an animal's life, it was safe to conclude that the first chicken that came into existence would have evolved from an embryo inside an egg, thus proving that it was first the egg and then the chicken.
'Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg. So, I would conclude that the egg came first,' The Independent quoted him, as saying.
The same conclusion was also reached by philosophy of science Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and Charles Bourns, a poultry farmer and the chairman of a trade body called Great British Chicken.
Charles Bourns said that the egg before the chicken theory was more plausible as eggs had been in existence even before the chicken had evolved.
'Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived,' he said
2006-06-13 23:33:53 · answer #2 · answered by dream1er75 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biologically speaking, the egg. Evolution means that there are small changes from dinosaur to birdish-thing to chickenish-thing to chicken. These changes happen in reproduction, when the egg is lain. Of course the animal that hatches from the egg has to be the same as the egg itself: there can't be any evolution there. What ever mutation turned the proto-chicken into a real chicken happened when mommy proto-chicken was creating her egg. So the egg of a chicken came before the chicken itself.
2006-06-08 15:02:04 · answer #3 · answered by geofft 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg Salad
2006-06-13 17:47:40 · answer #4 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer the the machacha burrito, which has chicken and eggs. That way I am eating both the the living and the unborn.
2006-06-09 00:31:41 · answer #5 · answered by Philatellic I.Y.C. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken came first. Genesis 1:24,25 ( And god said let the Earth bring fourth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and the beast of the earth after his kind and it was so. And God mad the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and God saw that it was good. This is where God filled the Earth with chickens. And in Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And to geoffreyerfoeg THAT IS NOT BIOLOGICALLY SPEAKING IT IS THE RELIGION OF EVOLUTION SPEAKING AND geoffreyer NEEDS TO BRUSH UP ON THE BOOK OF GENESIS
2006-06-13 22:09:12 · answer #6 · answered by drdebatingmusician 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken. it came 1st when God created everything
2006-06-08 14:32:22 · answer #7 · answered by ajfalkjf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The farmer :-)
2006-06-08 23:31:14 · answer #8 · answered by shellers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋