2006-07-07 08:54:09 · 10 answers · asked by lori_grov2010 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God created all birds, animals and fish, not eggs that eventually hatched.
2006-07-07 08:57:53 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-07-07 09:06:36 · answer #2 · answered by zass0119 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg came about 3 billion years ago, while the chicken is a mere 10 million years old
it was not a chicken egg of course
2006-07-07 09:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kimberly Zass and the binary person all have it.
If you 'believe' in Darwinism. Birds are descendants of the dinosaurs. So an egg that led to the chicken came first.
Or if you prefer Creationism, God created everything. It isn't written which came first, but probably the chicken.
2006-07-07 09:08:38 · answer #4 · answered by Blackfish95 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg.
Dinosaurs hatched from eggs well before there was ever a chicken.
2006-07-07 09:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by i10100101 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would think an egg of some other kind but somehow a chicken popped out of the egg
2006-07-07 08:58:52 · answer #6 · answered by kimberley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends whether you believe in evolution or creation. If you believe in evolution, the egg came first. If you believe in creation, the chicken came first.
2006-07-07 09:17:57 · answer #7 · answered by pennypincher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken
2006-07-07 08:57:01 · answer #8 · answered by Tim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person who is trying to decide the answer, because he or she has to look for them first.
2006-07-07 08:57:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-07-07 09:13:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋