which one?

Question

What came first the chicken or the egg,why?

Answer 1

The chicken it was all fluffy and cute... then it grew up and you know the rest

Answer 2

Ah... the age old question. A lot of ways to look at this one but I've always believed it was the chicken. It's a question of actuality vs. potentiality. The chicken is just that, an actual chicken. The egg is simply an egg with the POTENTIAL to become a chicken. Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Two answers:
The mutation started in the genes of the first chicken when it was in the egg. So egg.

The critter we call chicken existed long before the word "chicken". So the chicken and the egg at the same time.

Answer 4

it scientificly makes scence it was an egg. dinosaurse are a species of abodumlical (egg laying) and a chicken is an evolved form of dinosaur. as the dinosaurs were slowly changing by breeding with diferant species there young would change a chicken has the blood type of the araporious and the deitauror (those are two kinds of dinos) the araporious, dietauror, and chicken all have same to simular bones, skin, blood type, and all three have wings. so it's the egg came first.

hope u finaly know the simple thing scientist discovered almost 35 years ago.

Answer 5

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, The Art of Knowing [1]. It appeared again in The Improper Hamptonian [2], was included in abbreviated form in a 2001 Long Island Newsday Q&A column featuring Langan [3], and was compactly summarized in Langan's 2001 Popular Science interview.

A CNN article on May 26, 2006 featured an analysis, according to which the egg came first [2]. 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.

Answer 6

that is one of earth's unsolved question cuz if they say egg then where did it came from?it cant be a chicken cuz they didnt go on earth yet and u said egg not chicken!or if they say chicken came first then where did that come from?cant be a egg cuz u said chickens came first so the egg should come after it right?now would change your answer?

Answer 7

the egg. The chicken evolved throughout time, so the first "real" chicken had to come from the egg of a slightly different bird. . .

Answer 8

Thats easy the chicken! Because God created animals before eggs!

Answer 9

First of all, you really have to be sure that those two things exist or are they figments of your imagination. Does the chicken really come from the egg, or is it just an illusion? Do an egg really come a chicken's a.rse or is it just a joke? The government is watching you, with one bird embryo at a time...

Answer 10

Well, and egg requires a chicken to lay it, but you can't have a chicken to lay it because chickens come from eggs ..... so the answer to your question, based on current scientific study, would be, the dinosaur.

Answer 11

the egg!

if youre a creationist, you wont be able to answer this.

Evolution would say that at some time, an ancestor of the modern chicken had an egg that became fertilized, and that egg had a slight genetic modification that meant when it hatched, it became the first chicken on the planet.