Which DID come first? The Chicken or the Egg?

Answer 1

In a nutshell……..

If you believe in the creation theory or intelligent design the chicken came first. If you believe in evolution the egg came first.

Creation Theory - God created the chicken.

Intelligent Design - The Creation Theory renamed, see above.

Evolution - All living organisms share a common ancestor and by natural selection, genetic drift and billions of years; a bird very similar to a chicken laid an egg that contained a chicken embryo, the chick grew into a mature chicken and reproduced with the very similar birds and passed on his chicken traits to produce chicken offspring.

Answer 2

If you believe in God you would know that it was the chicken because animals were created before fetuses. If you don't believe in God you can still prove that it was the chicken anyway. The first chicken would have been very different than what we have now and probably didn't actually come out of an egg. It was slowly over many many years formed into a chicken that eventually was able to lay eggs. So the answer is the chicken. (other proof is that the chicken and the rooster came first because without both united you couldn't produce a fertile egg)

Answer 3

If you believe that the complete life cycle of a bird (in this case) begins with conception or egg fertilization then the egg comes first and, later on, hatches out a chicken.

As was stated earlier, the egg stage of a chicken was first produced by something that was not quite a chicken and a gene mutation created a new being - a chicken.

However, if you are a Creationist, the chicken came first.

A fun question btw.

Answer 4

This question appears regularly in the question file, so let's take a shot at it.

In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

Answer 5

Amniotic eggs essentially identical to those used by chickens have existed for 350,000,000 years. Chickens have, at most, been in a recognizably chicken-like form for a few million. The math on this one is not that hard - eggs came first.

Answer 6

The chicken poped out of a egg. But then the egg popped out
of the chicken. So something had to create one of the above
or we wouldn't know the question.

Answer 7

The egg.

According to Darwin, mutation is the driving force of evolution. So at some point inside the egg a proto-chicken mutated into what we now call chicken.

Answer 8

The chicken came first because it had to lay to egg.

Answer 9

Only God and other animals were present at the time, so only God would know. The most obvious answer from reading Genesis is that the chicken came first. But if you read Genesis thoughtfully, you realize that these details aren't the important part of the message, so that would be reading more of the author's intent than is present in the words.

Answer 10

I believe in the creation theory, so it's the chicken. God did not create the egg first.