What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

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2 1/2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup butter
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup sour cream
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

And then will you
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In the microwave or over a double boiler, melt unsweetened chocolate and butter together, stirring occasionally until smooth. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a medium bowl, beat sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light. Mix in the chocolate mixture until well blended. Stir in the sifted ingredients alternately with sour cream, then mix in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.

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Answer 2

Now till the beginning of time is past and now till the end of time is future. This is one of the many monkey wrenches that disproves evolution is a wholesale science. Figuratively, an egg is the seed of a chicken and a chicken is a grown fruit of an egg. Similarly. a fruit produces plants which produce fruits after their kind. When past and future intersect, we have a transitory space called present. Since the orbs spin at calculable and predictable speeds, their origins cannot be accidental. Since all eggs have identical characteristics, their origins cannot be accidental. Depending on where you are on the time bridge, you will find either chicken or egg or both. Before the vehicle of time began to run, the DNA for the chicken and the egg were a cohesive unit.
The theory of evolution is that species leap and transform themselves into new species that are capable of reproducing after their own new kind. So why don't the new chickens produce chickens? Why do the new eggs still hatch into chickens--they should produce egg-lets?
I will quote from my favourite book www.trafford.com/04-2126 "Why did the ape trade back its ape suit in the middle of summer after achieving a higher status and revert back to being an ape?" That does not say much for us humans?
Boaz.

Answer 3

Chicken

Answer 4

The egg

The eIn 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

From a cellular biology point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.

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.

A modern analysis covering all of the major variants was authored by Christopher Langan, published in 2001 on the Mega Foundation website [1], and subsequently included in his book of essays [2]. It appeared again in The Improper Hamptonian, was included in abbreviated form in a 2001 Long Island Newsday Q&A column featuring Langan, and was compactly summarized in Langan's 2001 Popular Science interview. Although others may previously have reached similar conclusions, this seems to have been the first time that a definitive analysis appeared in the popular media.

This analysis was recently corroborated in a May 26, 2006 CNN article, according to which the egg came first [3]. The key criteria on which CNN bases its answer, involving relatively recent findings from reproductive and evolutionary biology, are identical to several of those cited in the prior analysis.

Contents [hide]
1 Assuming a chicken egg
2 Biological Answers
3 A question of whether chickens exist
4 A question of syntax
5 Reframing the question
6 See also
7 External links



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Assuming a chicken egg
In this case, the egg is assumed to be a chicken's egg. This is an obvious assumption since the question itself implies a link between the two.

If one assumes the egg to be a chicken egg then one must define what a chicken egg is:

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.

If: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken and A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays
Then there may be an error of definition. If the definition of "chicken" used does not refer to "chicken eggs", then the chicken must come first, because without chickens there cannot be any chicken eggs.

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Biological Answers
In this case, the egg is not assumed to be a chicken egg. In effect this changes the question to: "Which came first, a chicken or any egg".

From a cellular biology point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.

If the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. 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. After all, the question is purposefully ambiguous -- it is not, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"

The crux of the matter is how to biologically define 'a chicken'. What level of genetic similarity or structural similarity determine whether an organism is a chicken? One can only define what was the first chicken after the fact, thus any definition of the first chicken becomes arbitrary. The question 'which came first?' ignores the complicated reality of speciation. The concept of species is an abstraction intended to categorize a broad swath of genomes and their subsequent phenomes. If one were to do away with approximate categories, each individual 'chicken' actually represents a unique genotype. Under this definition, if a 'chicken' possessing genome A were to lay an egg possessing genome B, then an egg of genome B is antecedent to an animal possing genome B and that the parent--genome A--is antecedent to, yet different from the egg of genome B. Hence, in an absolute sense, the egg came before the 'chicken.'

According to the principles of speciation, neither the chicken nor the egg came first, because speciation does not occur in simple, obvious units. In fact, evolution is about a slow transition in an overall population. What qualifies as “chicken” (ignoring the many diverse modern types of chicken) involves a wide range of genetic traits (alleles) that are not encompassed in a single individual and continue to be modified from generation to generation.

The transition from non-chicken to chicken is a gray area in which several generations are involved, and therefore which includes many many chicken-and-egg events, with no one step representing the whole. Since the result of the process is an incomplete transition into various new characteristics rather than one single blueprint, a new species, "chicken", is only identified in hindsight when the species can be obviously identified as different from its ancestral stock.

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A question of whether chickens exist
It has been suggested that the definition of "chicken egg" could be "an egg that was laid by a chicken", creating a perpetual causal loop. An equally valid logical resolution to the problem is to postulate that there are, in fact, no chickens.

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A question of syntax
One can consider the question inside the framework of experience, making the question concrete instead of abstract: "The chicken or the egg - which came first?" "The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.

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Reframing the question
It could be said that the question simply requires one to know the context. Most people thinking of the question automatically think of the timeline and it is in this manner that both the previous evolutionary theory and religious teachings contexts arise. Other potential contexts are:

Having looked through a dictionary from front to back, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
When you walked through the supermarket, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
When reading the menu, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?

Answer 6

The egg, the chicken hatched from an egg, which was layed by a different species. A spontaneous genetic change occured, and the new species was created -the chicken.

Answer 7

New scientific research says the egg came first, and that the chicken is actully a descendent of other birds.These birds kept evolving and eventually we got the chicken egg, then the Chicken!!! CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK

Answer 8

I think it was the egg, maybe Eve sat on it and Adam brought her food like the Penguins, ROFL There had to be a chicken to sit and keep the egg warm!!!!

Answer 9

The chicken...remember Genesis?

Answer 10

The chicken silly, the egg had to be incubated.