The hen came first. God created animals, not eggs.
Biological Answer:
From a cellular biology point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.
If the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.
In this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first true chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg. After all, the question is purposefully ambiguous -- it is not, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"
2006-08-19 01:24:55
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answered by Anonymous
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Hi,
This is as you rightly say a philosophical question, however, it is not a hard one to answer.
Animal species come in to existence either by some kind of evolution or by creationism.
If creationism is true then the hen is created first since God created the animals complete
If some variety of evolution is true then the egg came first, since the genome of a hen came about by crossing of previous genotypes or by mutation and would first be present in the egg laid by the hen's predecessor laid and which would hatch into the first hen
Contrary to Unisoul the Vedas is no better equipped to answer this question that Christianity
Clair B you are wrong philosophic is a perfectly good English word
2006-08-19 01:25:33
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answered by phoneypersona 5
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This is an easy question. The hen egg needs incubation to hatch. In order for that to happen, the egg must be sat on by the hen before the egg can be hatched. That is the hen's job. So, therefore, the hen came first.
You say," well where did the hen come from?" God created it.
2006-08-19 02:57:13
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answered by Cal 5
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God created hen first, if you want to look things according to religion. Science believes in evolution and I guess egg should be first in this regard. The best answer for your question is the 'Link' between them is first. Focus on the link. Do a lot research on the link. then you will find better answer. Good luck!
2006-08-19 01:37:24
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answered by Azage G 2
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First off "philosophic" is not a word.
Second off its a question for religon / science.
Creationists would say the Chicken because all the creatures were created... blah blah blah.
Science says its all down to how the genetic mutation evolved the species. It would have been a slow pregression from "pre-chicken", some suggest reptiles, to the chicken you know today. However the first chicken would have been born from a parent who is not a chicken. Therefore evolution says the Egg came first.
2006-08-19 01:27:35
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answered by Claire B 2
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Both... the Hen was inside the Egg.
2006-08-19 01:26:03
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answered by xfireboyx49408 3
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This is actually a misunderstood and very simple question to answer. The egg came first. For further info or explanation read some stuff that a guy named Darwin wrote.
2006-08-19 02:08:24
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answered by Nick l 2
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i think its the hen because as most of us believe, a supernatural force created most of the stuff on earth, so the hen must have been created first and then the entire process of the hen-laying- egg must have started.............what d'you think?
2006-08-19 01:35:18
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answered by da punk~ 1
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It has to be the egg. You never asked if the egg you are referring to is a hen's egg, just an egg. Did dinosaurs not come from eggs?
2006-08-19 01:28:34
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answered by GAB & R 2
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this is crazy. the hen. if God created the egg first, it would still need the incubation/warmth of the mother hen so it could hatch. otherwise, the egg would just be breakfast.
2006-08-19 01:26:00
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answered by Shamus 3
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