Which came first, the chicken, or the egg?

Question

???? who knows for sure???

Give a detail or two why the chicken/egg came first?

Answer 1

If you think about it, the rooster "came" first

Answer 2

http://www.answers.com/chicken%20or%20egg

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

The egg came first because Dinosaurs existed before Chickens and laid eggs.

Answer 4

How could the egg possibly come first? If the chicken came first then the egg would die without a rooster. So neither, unless there was a ruster involved.

Answer 5

Well, lets see.... the chicken because there had to be something to lay the egg, no wait, the egg because how would the chicken be there without the egg, but then who laid that damn egg?!! Aw man, now you're confusing me!!!

Answer 6

Chickens.

Answer 7

No one really knows for sure, but if I would take a guess, I would say the egg, as chickens evolved from sub-aquatic creatures.

Answer 8

I don't think eggs can come, so I say Chicken.

Answer 9

chicken, it prob formed from something else. the egg would have had to come out of the chicken. yes?

Answer 10

chicken hatches fomr the egg but the egg comes from the chicken so it is hard to say

Answer 11

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