what came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

the chicken.. because.. God created animals before he created eggs?!?!?!

Answer 2

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The chicken or the egg
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The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". When used in reference to difficult problems, a chicken and egg problem is similar to a Catch 22 situation where something cannot happen until a second thing does, and the second thing cannot happen until the first does. For example, a person might have trouble finding a job without work experience, but to get work experience he/she must have a job.

The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..."
Various answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humorous.

As suggested by the alternative definitions and solutions given below, the chicken-or-egg dilemma has multiple semantic variants and can thus be viewed as an exercise in semantics. Regarding at least two of these variants, the field of biology contains decisive contextual information. Although the problem has been around in one form or another for millennia, making it difficult or impossible to know who first "solved" it, the biological information needed to resolve all of the obvious semantic variants has only been available for decades.

Answer 3

If: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken

Then a bypass is allowed: An animal that was not a chicken laid the chicken egg which contained the first chicken. In this case the egg came first.

If: A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays

Then a bypass is allowed: A chicken (that hatched from a non-chicken egg) laid an egg (a chicken egg). In this case the chicken came first.


There is a big discussion about every possibility here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_or_the_Egg

Answer 4

According to Aristotle, who held that actuality takes precedence over potentiality, the chicken. An egg becomes a chicken, but chickens do not become the eggs (they lay them, they don't become them). Therefore, an egg is a potential chicken, but a chicken is an actual chicken. Therefore, as stated, the chicken came first.

Answer 5

The egg came first. Yes, it's been proven. The embryo of the first chicken was inside an egg, therefore the egg came first. You can also say that the first chicken came out of the first chicken egg.

It's based on the theory of evolution.

Answer 6

From the Biblical point of view, the chicken came first because God created it and there after it lay the egg.

Answer 7

Well, Studies have shown that life started with a single cell organism. This was figured by the adaptation that they grew to multiple cells which were mammals. So the correct answer would be "The chicken came before the egg.

Answer 8

For the last time- eggs where around a LONG time before chickens were. You can think of better questions!

Answer 9

I hope the following answers your question:


A chicken and an egg are lying in bed.

The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a
cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face.

The egg, looking a bit peeved, grabs the sheet and rolls over and says:


"Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question!"

Answer 10

The chicken. Someone had to lay the egg.

Answer 11

The chicken. it took care of the egg