2006-08-19 22:02:56 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
go & ask the cjicken or the egg. your will get first hand information. (right from the chicken's mouth. pl ask it before it reaches your mouth )
2006-08-19 22:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolutionary answer: The egg.
The theory being that at one point, there was a creature almost but not quite a chicken, a genetic mutation occurred, the creature laid an egg, and out hatched a chicken.
Creationist answer: The chicken.
The theory being that God created all the creatures on earth (including the chicken), and that just as Adam was not created as a baby, the other animals were also created fully grown.
Silly answer: Call KFC and ask the Colonel.
2006-08-20 00:36:38 · answer #2 · answered by AmericanDreamer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely the chicken (or rather the chicken-like bird that the chicken is descended from).
God created the chicken on day 5 along with all the other birds, and it then laid eggs.
If He'd created an egg first then how would it hatch and survive?
2006-08-19 23:28:01 · answer #3 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe this question is coming up again, I just researched it here yesterday for the heck of it.
Evolution has a big problem with this one, I mean the chicken had to come first, unless the egg evolved and then hatched 1.7 million years later or something--and I find it hard to believe it wouldn't have fried or been hard-boiled somewhere in that time period.
I have a good idea, maybe there was this being called God, and he created the chicken, and in his masterful design decided that it should lay eggs to produce offspring.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go fry myself up an omelette.
2006-08-19 22:11:08 · answer #4 · answered by bandit 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
and the real answer is......
In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.
Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.
Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.
2006-08-19 22:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The egg for breakfast and chicken for lunch
2006-08-20 00:33:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People tend to forget that this question applies to any creature that lays eggs-why it is built around the poor chicken I do not know.
2006-08-20 02:51:11 · answer #7 · answered by Torchwood 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lately there was a press release that some researcher finally got it that "Chicken" is the correct answer to this longest-running riddle.
Quite amazing...
2006-08-20 00:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by Geo C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists have answered that Q, so you all know now that the EGG came first, its a FACT!!! =]
2006-08-20 01:24:17 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that there was a ancestor of the chicken that eventually evolved into the chicken. hence, i think maybe the egg popped first......
2006-08-19 22:40:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋