A bit like the "chicken and the egg" - you can answer this one as well!
2006-07-20 07:33:50 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I say the answer came first- it was there all along- you just did not know it and hence had to ask the question. The answer did not suddenly materialize just because the question was asked- there answer was there from the very begining and thus gave you a reason to ask the question!
The answers are already there they just becaome realized when the right question is asked!
2006-07-20 07:38:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
That question is easy for a creationist, the chicken came first, fully formed and functional. From my position, God is first, but since God is a necessary being and is uncreated, being first is a moot point. I reject evolution for one reason, it cannot be tested in the laboratory to find out how it happened, because in occurred in the past. All the evidence we have exists in the present, we can at best by empirical data conjecture what happened. I don't really mind if someone wants to believe in evolution, just don't tell me it is a scientific fact, when the evidence doesn't support it. In addition, all the dating methods are based on 3 assumptions; first, that the parent/daughter element relationship known at the beginning, NOT! Second, that the decay rate from parent to daughter element was constant throughout the ages; nobody knows that; Third, there were no external influences to affect the decay rate, again nobody knows that either. For example, Uranium/Lead is the most popular by far,(for those interested Carbon-14 only dates within thousands of years, not millions). The rock in which the element is found could leached from underground streams causing the Lead 206, the daughter element of Uranium 238 to change into Lead 207. So the dating method would be tainted. To add to that, the Big Bang is a contingent event, of which another superior event could have easily caused it, then into an infinite regress we go. Sorry got a little side tracked, but it seemed a natural progression.
2006-07-20 07:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by tigranvp2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first… No doubt.
Evolution does not work on the parent, it is a modification of the genes that was passed into the offspring (which starts in the egg).
On the other hand, if you subscribe to belief that god just made everything and science is a fallacy, then of course the chicken came first.
But as far as question & answer… which came first? That is the process of the scientific method.
First we observe and measure a phenomenon until we understand it’s behavior. Then we ask why it behaves that way. A theory is developed and then tested. That becomes the Answer until it fails a test
2006-07-20 08:27:56 · answer #3 · answered by yeeooow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question--there couldn't be a correct answer unless you knew what the question was. And it was the egg that came first--chickens weren't the first egg-layers.
2006-07-20 08:25:30 · answer #4 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends on if you define a question as having to be orally spoken. Answers came first, because we have solved problems in our mind long before we ever were able to phrase a question to another person. Now you could say that asking yourself the question in your own mind would instigate the answer. .
2006-07-20 18:01:09 · answer #5 · answered by judson d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer, if the question is asked there must already be information there to give an answer to.
If there is no information for the answer then the question would be pointless. It would be like turning on a tap that has no water.
2006-07-20 07:42:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only time an answer is given first before the question is on the tv game show Jeopardy.
2006-07-20 07:36:35 · answer #7 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kindof a spinoff of creationism which states that matter and the various forms of life were created by God out of nothing, hence the answer was created by God out of nothing; which implies to me that he can create an answer without a question to begin with. The answer is born to answer every question possible b4 even thought of. For god did not create the question, but the answer itself.
2006-07-20 14:58:01 · answer #8 · answered by StealthShadow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first answer was only born through a preceeding question. The "answer" may have pre-existed, but it was not an answer -- just a random statement.
By definition, an "answer" only exists when there is a question to define it.
2006-07-20 07:38:44 · answer #9 · answered by truthyness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the egg came first.
2006-07-20 07:39:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋