Why scientist still cannot concluded the argument; Chicken or Egg first?

Answer 1

First God made the chicken then the chicken made the egg. First God made man then man had children, after all a baby cannot take care of itself can it.

Answer 2

There is a virtual experiment that "proves" the question.

1. Identify your chicken. There are many varieties and none have identical genes but it doesn't matter which you choose because the experiment works for all of them.

2. Obtain the Gnome (genetic fingerprint) of your chicken. This gives you a base definition of what is and what isn't a chicken.

3. Work back through the generations until you find an instance where one or both parents have a different Gnome to the chicken you started with. This is the first instance of a genetic mutation and the first chicken of a new species. The parent/s are not chickens as you have defined a chicken to be so their offspring is the first chicken and it came from an egg.

4. You can then point out that the parents look like chickens, cluck like chickens and walk like chickens so they are chickens. I then invite you to repeat the experiment on the parents until you come up with genetically dissimilar parents that look nothing like chickens (dinosaurian, perhaps). The egg still came first.

5. You will then repeat the experiment ad nauseam through the direct line of lineage until you come to an animal that did not lay eggs to reproduce (cellular division, perhaps) and triumphantly claim that the chicken came first.

6. I point out that it isn't a chicken.....

Answer 3

Easy.Its a trick question.Both.They exist at exactly the same time within eachother and cannot be separated in the real world without the process stopping.Chickens on the whole survive longer in a chicken form than as an egg(unless it gets fossilized) but an egg is just another developmental stage in being a chicken .
All eggs are created within the body of a chicken from the division of reproductive cells, to become a chicken the moment they are fertilsed.This always has to happen in the chicken.If they are not fertile the egg may still be formed but it will never ever become a chicken.At best it may become your breakfast, at worst a rotten egg.
An egg is basically a very large cell that contains all the genetic information to make chickens in a nice hard shiny shell thats laid outside of a chicken.This confuses people.It was still an egg in the chicken up until the calcuim shell formed to enable it to pass out into the cold cruel world and became apart from it.
The problem is that we tend to see the egg shell not the chicken still inside it developing.The difference is at this moment in time of the chickens development it is more easy to have a single shell holding in all those leaky fluids that will grow into a small chicken quickly rather than let it takes its time to develope lots of cells to turn into skin and feathers in achicken to protect it from the environment when its born.You would also need a much bigger egg or a much bigger chicken depending on what you planned to do.
Millions of species of creatures lay eggs but very few comparitively keep eggs within the body to bear live at birth.It all comes down to parental care.If women could lay eggs( and I know a few who would probably like to choose that option rather than waddle around like a duck for nine months) I guarantee nobody would dare ask that question for fear in public of being laughed or stoned by out ranged mothers.
You can separate an egg from the chicken but if you don't sit on it in a nice warm place it will never reach that other stage of chicken being,the chick.
This question was first asked by someone who was very probably a smartarse who thought he was being clever or had never bothered looking at all those other animals but chickens that laid eggs.I shouldn't worry and keep on enjoying the your breakfast.

Answer 4

This is definitely NOT a scientific argument. It is a trivial question for philosophy. The question inherently does away with the evolution of the universe since it suggests that there is a chicken or an egg appearing miraculously. Science does not bother with such silly concepts. Point, science has not ever attempted to answer it and it will not do so in the future. Ask it of creationists or other fringe lunatics.

Answer 5

They came at the same time. Becuase whether you look at it from an evolution or creation aspect, the definition of what makes a chiken a chicken (a hen that lays eggs) and the definition of the chicken egg (an egg laid by a chicken).

Only when the first chicken-like creature to lay a chicken-like egg can the a chicken be called a chicken and the chicken egg be called a chicken egg.

Answer 6

It is concluded. From a science perspective, if you are speaking of the theory of evolution, the proto-chicken laid the mutation that we now know as a chicken. Therefore, the egg came first.

The only reason the other argument is there is because of creationists who believe that animals were created by a divine being.

Answer 7

This may be a religious belief. For example, in the Jewish religion, it is forbidden to eat meats that are cooked in milk or even to drink milk after having had meat within the last 8 hours...or to eat meat after having milk within the last 8 hours. The Jewish law relates to the fact that we are not allowed to consume an animal cooked in it's mother's milk. It's considered mean and inhumane to do so, therefore it is not permitted. So, things like creamed chipped beef or lamb in cream sauce are not allowed. As for the chicken and the egg thing...it sounds like a similar prohibition, but I don't know if it's a Jewish thing or another religion. I don't think it's Jewish, but it may be and I'm just unaware of it.

Answer 8

Well I cannot see why this is under genealogy it should be philosophy as the question is philosophical and has to do with the beginning of the universe...
If the egg was first that means that "things" were created in potential whereas if the chicken was first , "things" were created fully formed.

Answer 9

Scientist do have an argument. Its not that a chicken or an egg suddenly appeared somewhere. It has to do with evolution, from small living creatures that were able to reproduce themselves and evolved into other species.

Answer 10

the chicken and the egg were in bed. the chicken had a satisfied look on his face while the egg looked pissed.

and that answers the question of who came first.