what came first..........the chicken..or the egg??

Answer 1

the chicken because the chicken needs to lay the egg

Answer 2

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LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.

"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."

Answer 3

The answer is : it depends on your point of reference.
To answer this question, you need to know about TIME.
Westerners think that time is linear. That time goes from an obscure beginning to an uncertain future. With this way of looking at time you cannot answer this question, because there is always a chicken before an egg and an egg before a chicken. Philosophers call this a "conondrum." There is always a cause for an effect, there is always a past for a present... BUT if you look at time as a circle, as a cycle, then you see that there is always a chicken before an egg and an egg before a chicken. Thus, you just need to choose your point of reference in this circle. This is a concept which Einstein spoke about. You cannot talk about time (past, present and future) without a point of reference. If you want to go deeper into this concept:
http://godhascome.org/page1003.html
It is good to understand that Time is eternal. It has not been created, neither it can be destroyed.. just like matter: it cannot be created neither destroyed.. this is the law of conservation of energy/matter.

Answer 4

Chicken

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

The answer is Egg.Scientifically speaking but in a simple language when life form moved from the water to the land, the first bird species were born out of eggs by older species living in water

Answer 7

Egg.Chicken comes from Egg

Answer 8

The Egg. Chickens don't lay eggs, hen lay eggs

Answer 9

Egg, form a birdthat was the chickens ancestor, it hatched and had evolved into a chicken.

Answer 10

Ask the BBC:

They have solved the conundrum as it applies to retaliation. The Israelis retaliate to palestinian agression but not the other way round. For example Israel retaliated recently when Gazans seized an Israeli soldier, but what the Gazans did was not retaliation for the seizure of 2 Gazans the previous day by Israeli commandos who had crossed the border into Gaza.