which came first? the chicken or egg?

Answer 1

Is this really the best question you could come up with? SHAME SHAME SHAME. . . .you are LAME LAME LAME!

Answer 2

Scientifically, the egg came first. If you go back millions of years on the evolutionary chain, the chicken would devolve to become an organism that would cease to be called a "chicken". However, it's egg would continue to satisfy the criteria of being an "egg".

But, of course, this question came under the section of "philosophy".

What is the chicken symbolistic of? The parent, the elder.

As for the egg? What's the symbolism? The child, the young.

Yet these two, the parent and child, may be opposites, but they merge, flow and are one and the same in the cycle of life.

Heraclitus, a philosopher who lived in approximately 540-480 BC, believed that there are opposites everywhere. For example,

*If we were never ill, we would not know what it was to be well
*If we never knew hunger, we would take no pleasure in being full
*If there were never any war, we would never appreciate peace
*If there were no winter, we would never see the spring

Yet he believed that these opposites forever came together, and were part of a greater whole. For example, winter and spring are part of the 4 seasons, which merge both of them.

The chicken and egg, then, would be part of the greater whole, Life.

Another good example would be the pheonix. After five hundred years the pheonix would rest and die in a giant flame. And from the ashes from that flame would rise a new, young pheonix.

Yet which came first? That can never be answered, because they are the very same pheonix, simply undergoing a major change.

There would be, then, no answer to this question, for "they are but one and the same."

Answer 3

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

The egg came first.

Because all chickens come from eggs. Not all eggs are from chickens.

You pick the dividing line between a "chicken" and the wild fowl that preceded it. That proto-chicken laid an egg. The neuvo-chicken hatched from it.

Answer 5

Egg is the larval state of the chicken, and chicken is the mature state of the egg. If the egg were to come before the chicken, then it would be motherless. If the chicken were to come before the egg, it would be childless.

Therefore, cows came first.

Answer 6

I think this question came first, as I see it on here more often than I see chickens OR eggs!

Answer 7

This question again, for the unteententh time. First off, why does it matter, we have plenty of one for omlettes, and the other for barbecues? Secondly, they have been asking this question for longer then either you or I have been around, and nobody has given a definite answer to convince scientists as of yet. Why do you think people like us who cannot sleep at 2:00 a.m., would be able to do any better? Finally, if you want to really know, then go to the source itself! Ask the question to both, and whichever one gives you the better answer is the one who is right.

Sorry for the sarcasm. But, I know I have answered this question at least five times on this board alone. I guess the real question should be, "What does it matter, they are both here, and doing well?"

Answer 8

The chicken or some version of it. Egg layers developed later.

Answer 9

The chicken or the egg?
you say first chicken and then you say (or egg)!
if you would ask,egg or chicken i would answer egg!
so the answer of your question is chicken!
its obvious!
are you stupid?

Answer 10

The chicken

Answer 11

That is intersting if the egg came first how was it layed but if the chicken came first how was it hatched thats a tough one LMAO.