what came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

This question gets asked about every four days. I suggest you learn how to use the "Advanced Search" funtion, read old "Best Answers" and stop cluttering up the forum with drivel.

Or at least ask it i the philosopy or joke section.

Thank you!

Answer 2

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 get a job.

Answer 3

Easy question; the egg. Long ago, a primitive hen (similar to the modern pheasant) laid a mutant egg that gave rise to chickens. Normally, animals give birth to animals very similar to themselves. Mutations occur once in a while in random cells, but they do not occur in every cell in an entire animal (sorry to burst the idea of every cartoon showing full grown creatures evolving into super creatures after being exposed to chemicals, radiation, or something). In order for all the cells in a new, evolved animal to have the same mutation (i.e. the genes that make you a chicken rather than a pheasant), then that mutation occurred at the single cell stage of the animal. In other words, the mutation occurred in the single celled egg which then divided into the multicellular chicken. Therefore, the chicken egg came before the chicken.

Answer 4

Coming from a scientific study I read last month, the egg.

The reasoning: the modern-day chicken must have come from the egg of what the chicken evolved from.

So say a monkey gave birth to a type of non-evolved human. That's the same thing. The human didn't come from a human, it came from a monkey. Thus, the dinosaur laid an egg, and from it came the chicken.

Answer 5

All the life which was evolved from the world was started from the 1 cell living organism it is based on the science so that only it starts from the creature which takes the shape of the chicken or hen so that chicken or hen should come first then the other things like man come from the monkey.
God created everything so he will create a parent like what the bible says Adam and eve for Human. Sorry I am a HIndu

Answer 6

chicken cause you can't have an egg without a chicken and the egg needs to be kept warm and you can't do that without a chicken.....

Answer 7

Before chickens eventually evolved, there were the primitive animals which were the ancestors of chickens, and before them, the species which were in turn ancestors of those creatures etc... etc... and we eventually have the single-celled organisms from which all life originated.

Answer 8

The chicken - God never said "let there be eggs to hatch into fowl and fish". He said "Let there be Fowl of the sky and fish in the sea" - I'm a Christian...

Answer 9

Toasted egg and cheese plz...

Answer 10

Not only is this an age old question, but it's also a cliche.