Including and especially on Y!A, where it seems to've been asked hundreds of thousands of times.
2006-07-21 01:49:10 · 8 answers · asked by Starling 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The chicken and egg question is supposed to be impossible to answer, the same as Zenos Paradox (what would happen if an irresistable force hit an immovable object), which is why a lot of people use it in conversation.
But there is an answer. Chickens had to evolve from other creatures, but there will, and always has been an egg for the creature to grow out of. Even human beings start off as eggs of a sort. So the egg came first.
(and the (supposed) answer to Zenos paradox is that they stick together)
2006-07-21 02:00:30 · answer #1 · answered by sian_raven 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a classic riddle. The idea being if the chicken came first then how was it born? If the Egg came first then what laid it?
The answer being that the chicken was born unto a slightly different chicken and at some point a different species was created.
2006-07-21 01:53:50 · answer #2 · answered by INFOPOTAMUS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It never occurs to them to look up the questions asked previously.
And the same goes for lots of other questions like the ones about why you don't see white dog sh*t anymore.
2006-07-21 09:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by Rotifer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because people feel (wrongly) that they shoud have access to all the sordid details of the private relationship of the chicken and egg. a tabloid mentality of you ask me.
2006-07-21 01:52:47 · answer #4 · answered by rosends 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Limited imaginations.
2006-07-21 01:53:24 · answer #5 · answered by eireblood2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they don't know anything on palaeonthology!
eggs apeared millions of years before the first bird appeared!
2006-07-21 01:54:32 · answer #6 · answered by Dinorider 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People haven't had a reasonable answer and would like to know a tested scientific answer, that's why. Do you know why?
2006-07-21 01:55:22 · answer #7 · answered by Tudor_ 22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They want to play, but they have simple minds....Everyone can't ask good questions.......
2006-07-21 01:52:46 · answer #8 · answered by Gizmo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋