what came first chicken or the egg?

Question

it must be the chicken hmmmmmmmmmmm?????

Answer 1

The egg came first.
DNA mutations occur in the early stages of life of organisms. As you know, when new cells divide, the DNA within the nucleus separates nucleotides and duplicates, then two new helix are formed. The amino acids responsible for mitosis are prone to make mistakes to the genetic architecture-- a beautiful system of flaws that cause evolution and diversity in species. It's like the reason why children will look like their parents, but not approximately, they are a combination of both parent's ancestor genetic history and the result of new combinations in the DNA helix.
So according to fossil research, before the chicken was the "proto-chicken" and this bird was almost chicken, but not quite. Well this proto-chicken laid an egg with a mutation, and the interior change of the DNA was enough that the exterior of the new bird could be thought of as a new species.
The first chicken had to hatch from a chicken egg to qualify to be a chicken, so the egg came first.

Answer 2

Humorists would say the egg. It only takes two minutes to get hard boiled. The chicken takes 45 minutes.

As for Existentialists, the chicken, because; the chicken is a chicken while the egg is only a potential chicken. Assuming that you are talking about a chicken egg. Many try and change things up in that question and miss the point completely. Does something have to be experienced to be real or can it exist in and of itself? In otherwords, do you need the egg to understand the chicken and vice versa? Not really. Once you realize something is missing, you realize something exists, egg, chicken, whatever.

For the religious out there, which did man find first, the chicken or the egg, and that was the one that came first.

I would call it a tie.

Answer 3

It does sound puzzling at first, but how much does one have to think until one realizes that both chicken and egg must necessarily have come from something that is neither a chicken nor an egg? This answer was knowable centuries before biology came about, yet people assumed there was some unsolvable mystery behind the issue.

The modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million year old resident of the Jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken.

Answer 4

The chicken is first, because the chicken is the final cause of the egg.

Explain.

The final cause of something is that for the sake of which it exists. So one would say that the chicken is that for the sake of which the egg exists. Or, to put it another way, the egg exists in order to help a chicken develop.

I realize that this may be another sense of "first" than you were expecting, but it is a proper use of "first," according to Aristotle.

Answer 5

The egg becomes a chicken, but then in order to have an egg you have to have a chicken. In the beginning we were molecules, then we were created and through evolution we evolved as i suppose were chickens. The chickens later had eggs.

Answer 6

The chicken, because God made creatures of the earth first, not eggs first. So the chicken came first.

Answer 7

The feathers, feathers were flying all the way and messing the place up.

Then because god wanted peace and order, he put the feathers upon some weird skinny bird thing, which was all day alone because it was so ugly, and he named it "chicken".

That former ugly bird the "chicken", was not sad anymore and start playing with some little white rocks. And god said "this is good", and form the rocks into eggs so the little chicken can have company.

Answer 8

It depends on your belief system. If you believe in creation, the chicken. If you believe in evolution, the egg.

Food for thought; how can you have an egg without a hen to lay it?

Answer 9

Chicken!!

Answer 10

The egg -- because we eat eggs for breakfast and chicken for dinner.