What came 1st? The chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

The egg did because insects, fish and dinosaurs were laying eggs millions of years before chickens evolved.

Answer 2

Chicken

Answer 3

well........
If you believe in the Bible, the chicken came first. "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said, 'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven'." Genesis 1:19-20. Chickens are a type of fowl, so the Christian Bible says that chickens came first.

If you have a different religion, you might have a different belief about the how the treasures of the earth came to be. In the science of evolution, both chickens and eggs came before man. Since both the birds and the eggs were on earth first, historians weren't around to record which came first.

Whichever answer you gave, it's okay. A chicken can't be born without a chicken egg and a chicken egg can't be laid without a chicken. Both chickens and eggs are important!
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another one-
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.
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the poll results-
Which do you think came first?

Chicken 35% 5300 votes

Egg 65% 9805 votes
Total: 15105 votes
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Which Came First-The Chicken or the Egg?
Submitted by ivanjs on Thu, 2005-06-30 10:08. Humor
So which came first-the chicken or the egg?

It was in the dying moments of a reciprocal black hole in our galaxy nearly 2 billion years ago, when that most treacherous of fiends, Shaf-rock the Great Amphibiazoid, migrated to all corners of the heavens with his minions, wreaking havoc and destroying worlds whereever he went.

His great fleet of giant destructor ships (numbering in the millions it is said) swept through our galaxy like it was soup. There seemed to be no end to his conquering ways, but strangely, he seemed to be looking for something.

Some say he was seeking an eternal resting place, weary of conquering thousands of worlds; others say he was simply looking for yet another primitive world to subjugate and destroy.

Then, only after he had killed over a trillion people across vast expanses of our galaxy, did he come to what would later be known as earth-earth in a very primitive form with no people, no animals, only slight vegetation, and it is said that he looked upon earth and cried thus-"At last, I am home".

No one knew quite what he was referring to, but it did not matter-for only seconds after speaking those words (in his own language of course), all his conquering horde died of gastrointestinal disease-all except the chickens they brought with them for food and entertainment.

So the chicken came first.

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Answer 4

All creatures began a a-sexual organisms, meaning they didn't need a sexual partner to reproduce. Over generations they evolved and once there were a majority of the species they began to mingle. When this occured chemicals from one body went to the other one and created a chemical message that basically told the organism that sexual reprodution would be more efficient this way... so on and so on.
In other words the chicken didn't give birth too eggs to begin with, possibly live birth, like humans. But evolution made them begin laying eggs.

Could this mean, humans could possibly begin laying eggs? perhaps after their second trimester?

See there are good sides to a-sexual and bad sides as well.

Lets just say you were the last person on earth. Thats it....no hope for man. but if humans were a-sexual they could pop out a clone. lol

The bad side is that if one organism gets a desease, when in clones itself.. the clone will have the desease too... meaning there is no recessive genes, or dominant genes to possibly reject the desease. They automatically have it.

Plus I enjoy sexual reproduction with a woman versus by myself... lol

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I believe in God, but think about this. If he created the eggs first, then why didn't he make Adam? Wouldn't he have been a fetus?

Answer 5

HERE is how it all happened!!!

1. Humans were first
2. Humans evolve into grapes
3. Grapes are eaten by killer bees
4. Killer bees evolve into eggs
5. Eggs evolve into Adam and Eve
6. Adam and Eve steal the egg of a dinosaur and scramble it.
7. Donkeys get jelious and lay a chicken egg.
8. Chickens are created.

Answer 6

If you are a god fearing person who reads the Bible, obviously it was egg that came first. God was almighty and infinitely intelligent, so he knew better than going through the trouble of creating feathers, feet, bones, and the beak. He just created an egg and let it grow into a chicken; the natural way.

All of you saying God created chicken first obvious don't think very highly of his intelligence. Please add that to the list of the sins you'll have to repent this Sunday.

Answer 7

God created the animals for Adam to have dominion over so the Chicken would have been created and eggs would have come later in order to reproduce.

Answer 8

Contemporary opinion holds that chickens evolved from lizards, so in fact the egg came first.

Answer 9

THERE IS ACTUALLY AN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION!!!!!!!

Here it is: The egg came first because dinasour eggs were on earth much earlier than the time when the first chickens appeared!

Answer 10

God makes 2 chickens, chickens make eggs...
chicken came first!

if the egg came FIRST, who would sit on it to keep it warm??