What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Question

This is a common debate that has been around for years and about 50 percent of people believe the egg came first and the other 50% believe the chicken came first?

It's an interesting debate, whats your views?

Answer 1

egg
something chicken-like laid an egg of the first chicken.

Answer 2

i genuinlly know the ansswer to this. There was a chicken but it wasn't like the chickens you get today, it mated with a almost normal rooster then this caused the egg, this egg once grown up mated wth another almost normal rooster and so on until we got the chicken that is about today, i hope this helped. I've heard his question before someone asked it in the answer section of my paper and that was the answer.

Answer 3

Definitely the chicken.
Forget the evolution baloney. An egg couldn't have survived on its own to grow into a a chicken. The chickens must have been created first and laid eggs.

Answer 4

actually neither came first the fish egg did because i think everything came from the ocean over time the fish evolved. they became custom to living on land. later on in the historic period. when the new evolved fish had babies they created a new species known as the chicken.the it was a fish egg that came first but since the chicken was formed by a fish egg. only from the is were the chicken had baby chicks.so the chicken came first.

Answer 5

What came first?
The egg.
Why?
Because the chicken came out of it.
"but a chicken had to lay the egg."
Millions of years ago, two different spieces of birds cross breeded thus laying an egg that had the first chicken in it.

Answer 6

Egg.
(YET AGAIN)
Because it was laid by fish, dinosaurs and lizards.
Which were around LONG before chickens.
And also by the many, many birds that were around before chickens.
If you want to be super technical about it, almost any sexually reproducing organism that was around before what we know as the common chicken evolved and was selectively bred from some kind of wild fowl (probably only sometime around 500-1000AD, not even BC - so don't start any biblical genesis nonsense on me, even THAT predates the modern hen), down to and including pollinated plants, made use of eggs as the female gamete in fertilisation.

Answer 7

Of course, possibly I would say the egg. As we know about the evolution of eggs, we must understand that eggs were around long before the chikens were. So, I must appoint the egg as the first to come.

Answer 8

After much thinking, I've decided that the egg came first

Answer 9

I answered this somewhere else on this site a couple of days ago but since I only had the "proof" in Icelandic, I'm not gonna post it here but logic suggests the egg came first.....

Answer 10

I believe it was the chicken. Think back to what the bible says. For example, God didn't make Adam starting from the zygote. He just made him whole. Therefore the chicken was made whole and then it started producing eggs after having sex.