what came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

THE CHICKEN

Answer 2

Oh, no, not this AGAIN?!?

The egg came first. The Chicken is a descendant of the southeast Asian Redfowl, which was laying eggs long before the chicken ever existed. At the very moment an egg was laid, containing our definition of a chicken, the egg came first. Birds change shape and colors all the time through their descendants.

Answer 3

In your sentence and alphabetically, the chicken came first, but from an evolutionary perspective the order is non-chicken egg, proto-chicken, chicken egg, then chicken born of an egg.

Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.

In this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first "true" chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg.

So it depends on which chicken you are talking about- the modern chicken that comes from an egg, or the proto-chicken the comes from it's nearest evolutionary ancestor.

Answer 4

As genetic material (dna) does not change it's structure during the life of a chicken (or any living thing). The shift for it to become what we now call a chicken must have happend between generations during the egg stage. Hence the egg came first.

Answer 5

I think the chicken but it came out from the egg so egg first, next chick, and then chicken

Answer 6

The egg in every sense. Dinosaur eggs existed millions of years before chickens did, and if you mean the chicken or chicken egg, the the egg was laid by whatever the chicken evolved from.
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Answer 7

well most answers said the chicken, i agree with them but u would ask then where the chicken came from if there was no egg!? i will tell you! as Adam and Eve came with out any parents to this world, may be chickens also had their own Adam and Eve who came from the heavens not out of an egg.

Answer 8

This is a question in its simplicity and humorous image, but in truth it is asking whether the Evolutionists are right, or the creationsists. It is secretely asking for your beliefs. Therefore if you answer chicken, you are a creationist who is very devoted upon religion believing that humans were created by a divine entity first, and not hatched by nature and you were created in the fullest of physical and survival necessities without the need to develop. While if you pick the egg, you are an evolutionist in that you believe things must be first developed and are not already born whole and therefore not created first as humans by a define entity.

Answer 9

That's simple. The chicken came first. Think about it, there wouldn't be eggs to lay if the chicken didn't come first. :)

Answer 10

chicken, because the egg has to have a chicken to make it.

Answer 11

Definitely the chicken!