age old question: which came first,chicken or the egg prove your conclusion?

Answer 1

the egg.... because dinosaurs had eggs... (fish too...)

more seriously, the genetic code doesn't change during life, so the first chicken egg didn't come from the butt of a chicken : it came from it's precursor... because the egg WAS the 1st chicken ever alive

Answer 2

It was recently published in a scientific article that the egg is accepted to have come first. Bible... lol. Some people. If the Bible explains that animals came first, wouldn't it naturally include that they came about through a scientific means? Why does it all have to be "nope the bible says, so I won't think anymore...God can do that for me. hyuk!"

Think of the line of man, i'm sure you've seen the picture... first he's a monkey, then he's hunched over, then he's standing up straight.. and then he's sitting at a computer. The Chicken was like that. First it was some weird pheasant or fowl that doesn't really exist, then it was something a little more like a chicken, and then a little more.. You know how your nose is not the exact same size as your parents? What if you were born with a really long nose... and girls really really dug the nose. They were like ooooh... such a sexy nose. Say you had 3 kids. 1 of them had a nose even longer than yours... and the chicks really went crazy for him. So he has 6 kids because he's the man. And 2 of his kids have HUGEly long noses, and the girls are almost banging down their doors to get at those noses... They have 20 kids between the two of em... Soon man would have emmensly long noses, and everyone would be called homo sapien longnose or something. People would talk about how thousands of years ago in the past they had short noses and the girls would be like ew.. that's just gross. And someone would ask... where did the longnose species come from? didn't the first longnose have parents? if so, who were their parents?

On another note this only goes so far, The nose size has to stabilize because say the nose gets so huge, that they can't kiss anymore... heh, we all know what a hugely long nose could be used for, but that's just gross... or say maybe since the nose was so big, that the man couldn't eat properly anymore, and the advantage would be lost. The women would then go for the slightly shorter nose and keep the man who was more physically fit. This is only a made up situation though to help you... a what if? if you will. It also may help explain according to theorists how the giraffes neck is so long, but not twice as long as it already is. Surface attraction isn't everything. It's gotta be able to survive and be healthy with everything else it's got.

What I'm getting at is called sexual selection. It's only one type of natural selection. It explains why male peacocks have such crazy feathers and the females are just plain ol' brown. Chances are that they both started out the same, and over time, some males were born with 2 or 3 colorful feathers... and the whole thing repeats itself. (that's only a speculation).. But why do you think Girls today have such big boobs? According to "the Naked Woman" by zoologist Desmond Morris, they were to give a sexual signal on the front of the womans body as we began to stand upright. When we were hunched over, the female butt was enough to turn a man on. As we stood up, there was nothing much from a distance to get the man going. So the girls with big boobs were more attractive because it gave the guys something to go with. It can explain why Chimps and other ape females have flat chests except when they're nursing young. The primary sexual signal from a female is on her butt. If you ever seen a woman chimp at a zoo her lips are HUGE just hangin out the back and drippin stuff every now and then.

But I digress. The chicken was born out of an egg from its parents. The parents may have looked slightly different, and may have had plenty of children, each a bit different from the other. But there was one, who had chicken-like features that fit better in his environment than the others. Possibly it was a rooster with a big floppy red piece of skin on top of his head and under his beak that the chicks went wild for. They had kids, and the whole chicken thing would have progressed the same way as the hypothetical longnoses. So the first "chicken" would have been the one that caused the branch off in an evolutionary tree where the present day chicken lies. But probably didn't even look like a chicken as we know them.

If this doesn't quite answer your question, sorry, i've simply tried to give you something to work with... because according to the bible.. "...Teach a man to fish..."

Answer 3

The egg came before the chicken. This is because the chicken did not spontaneously generate. It had to hatch from something. Things exist in more "shades of grey" than "black and white" - the first chicken was probably a lot like it's parents but to determine what a chicken is and what a chicken is not you have to draw a line somewhere. If you look at the qualifications for something to be considered a chicken in "black and white" terms, something that did not quite qualify as a chicken laid the egg that the first chicken hatched from. More specificaly, animals very similar to a chicken evolved to beget the first chicken.

Answer 4

Bothe the Bible and science agree here: eggs came first.

The scientific explanation is that reptiles lay eggs, and chickens, like all birds, evolved from reptiles. So some partially evovled reptile/bird laid an egg that hatched into the first chicken. So, the egg came first.

Genesis 1:21 (New International Version) states: "So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good." So God created fish first, then He created birds. Fish lay eggs too, so God created eggs first. Of course, the creation of eggs may only have predated birds by a few seconds, or a few hours; the Bible is not clear on God's exact schedule on the fifth day.

Answer 5

Egg. If you believe in darwinism, life developing from complex protiens in a puddle and such, then that is effectively the egg.

If you believe a being from outer space created the chicken(God). Then you are taking the chickens way out and are refusing to use your brain, and are denying all fossil evidence.

Granted you have to be willing to look at this problem from a billion year perspective.

Answer 6

The egg, Its all about Darwinism. The chicken was not a chicken at first, well not as we see them today. At one point a species very like the chicken (the not so evolved version) gave birth to a chicken as we view it today(the evolved form).

Answer 7

The chicken and I can prove it. If the egg came first, what was sitting on it to keep it warm and make it hatch????

Answer 8

The chicken. God just made the animals first, which ironically proceeded the egg, but they would produc eggs.

Answer 9

the egg cuz the chicken most likey was not a chicken before we knew it. it would have evolved but still hatched from an egg.

Answer 10

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Which came first - the chicken or the egg? "The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.