chicken or egg???

Question

what came first the chicken or the egg and what is ur reason. get 10 points if i get a good answer

Answer 1

The rooster.

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.

The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..."

Various answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humourous.

Answer 3

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 4

Man that's pretty low, putting up an ad in here. We are trying to enjoy a Q & A session and here this dude puts up that Ad. That's wrong and disrespectful. That's like two people talking on the phone and suddenly a third person picks up the phone and starts giving ads between their conversation so they can make money.

I would report abuse.

Of course we all know the egg came in the morining and the chicken came at around noon and sometimes around evening time.

Answer 5

the egg came first, an almost chicken like reptile layed an egg and a chicken came out, end of story

Answer 6

a chicken and an egg are sitting in bed, side by side. the chicken is smoking a cigarette, looking very satisfied. however, the egg looks a bit angry. scowling, the egg says, "well THAT answers the question!"

Answer 7

there is 2 answer
1:god made the chicken that lad the egg
2:little tinnie things form togerter and made the chicken that made the egg

Answer 8

The chicken! Why? This is why:

The God made chicken...
Then the chicken lays eggs...
More chickens were born...
And the procedure continued on and on...

Actually no one knows exactly. But i think that's why...
^_^

Answer 9

The egg. There probably was an animal that was like a chicken that layed the first chicken egg.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question85.htm

Answer 10

the chicken has to create the egg that creates the chicken?

Answer 11

The egg becuase other animals hatch from eggs including the now extinct dinosuars. This should be in the joke section stupid.