Chicken or Egg?

Question

Which comes first chicken or egg?

Chicken or Egg? support your answer

Answer 1

If you're talking about the chicken egg, it has to be the chicken. if you're talking about eggs in general, it has to be the egg. Dinosaures had eggs.

Answer 2

LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. 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, told the UK Press Association 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."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

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

He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.

"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."

The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD.

Answer 3

According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.

Answer 4

Chicken

Answer 5

Chicken.

The chicken is inside the egg, always.

You make the chicken, then you cover it with the shell.

Making a shell and then putting a chicken inside without breaking it is impossible.

Besides, an egg without a already chicken inside makes this a pointless question.

Answer 6

Egg

Answer 7

chicken because the answer is in the question: Which comes first chicken or egg? just look in it the chicken came first

Answer 8

the egg came first as the question doesn't state what the egg came from and as dinosaurs existed before chickens and they also layed eggs the answer is the egg came first.

Answer 9

So...there's a chicken and an egg together in bed, and the egg rolls over and says, "Well, I guess we answered that question."

Answer 10

egg.

think about this. go though the idea of evolution.
if a creature is chicken like but more dinosaur we will call it a dinosaur. it lays an egg and that egg hatches to a creature that is more chicken like, we'll call it a chicken. so there-fore the egg came first.

if your religious you can just say chicken came first because god made it... but i am more scientific than religious.

Answer 11

The chicken. God created the earth. On the fifth day He created "every winged fowl." If He created an egg to begin with it would have no way of hatching because, well, there would be no momma hen to sit on it and make it hatch.