some say hen did
others say egg did
2006-07-15 22:53:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Depends on whether you are a creationist or an evolutionist, or a pastafarian...
Creationists would probably lean toward the hen coming first.
Evolutionists know the egg was around long before the modern fowl known as chicken evolved from a lower order bird ancestor.
Pastafarians posit that the Flying Spaghetti Monster willed everything into existence via his noodly appendages, and commonly cavorts about changing the results of all carbon dating results, and investigations into our origins, so we can never know that He created us. Plus we need more pirates to combat global warming...
I'm sorry, what was the question again?
2006-07-15 23:03:29 · answer #1 · answered by Michael Gmirkin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Creationist will say that the Hen came first, because in the begining all life was created and thus a Hen and Rooster would have been created as full grown adult birds, not eggs.
Evolutionist will say that the egg came first because all life on Earth is a result of random mutations. So a bird closesly related to the Chicken would have laid an egg and the developing embryo would have had some mutation which caused it to become the modern chicken.
Basically.
2006-07-15 23:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by Charlie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hen evolved into an egg laying species.
2006-07-15 22:58:18 · answer #3 · answered by sonnyd_is_me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this question came first because I see it asked more often than I see hens or eggs
2006-07-15 22:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by net_at_nite 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg came first
evoloution is a gradual process. an animal's genome cannot change during its life time, therefore the critical mutation in genome that leads to the existance of a brand new species can only take place before the actual animal is born. i. e. the first chicken must come from the egg laid by a 'pre-chicken', howver it's a ture chick egg.
2006-07-16 01:17:31 · answer #5 · answered by RANDOM 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first. Some chicken like bird at some point laid the egg of the first bird that could be called a chicken. It is evolution man!
2006-07-18 07:39:37 · answer #6 · answered by heather k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same time . the hen came with her egg
2006-07-15 22:58:22 · answer #7 · answered by EST-A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hen came 1st when God made every living creature.
2006-07-15 23:16:11 · answer #8 · answered by anitababy.brainwash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hen definetly came first.
2006-07-16 03:19:07 · answer #9 · answered by THE UNKNOWN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Various genera laid eggs, long before the first bird lived.
2006-07-15 22:57:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋