What is older...the chicken or the egg...??? ooohhh i sooo wonder...
2006-08-20 16:20:23 · 17 answers · asked by bugojanka69 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
and what if there is no god?
2006-08-20 16:26:18 · update #1
ok if it's the chicken that's older... where did it come from... you know it had to come out of an egg.. soooo.....
2006-08-20 16:28:49 · update #2
the duck!!!!!
2006-08-20 16:26:53 · answer #1 · answered by JenJen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The question is a bit of a paradox. Chickens evolved from other birds (I don't know which species, look it up on Wikipedia). The non-chicken birds gradually became more chicken-like overtime. Modern chickens will evolve into something different eventually.
Fortunately, future generations won't miss the chicken because so many things taste like chicken
However, there is an answer to the question "which came first, the chicken or the egg". It is impossible to decide which particular bird was the first chicken, but if you were to make an arbitrary decision like that (lets call that first chicken Jesse), then you simply ask was Jesse born from an egg? If yes, then by definition it is a chicken egg, even if it came out of a bird that isn't a chicken (but it pretty close to being a chicken). The first bird that was a chicken had to come out of an egg because chickens can't be born any other way.
I know this question is con fussing. And there is a bit of a paradox in the explanation (is the egg a chicken egg because a chicken was born out of it, or is the egg a non-chicken egg because it came out of a non-chicken?).
However, the question is purely academic since it is ridicules to try to determine which individual bird was the first actual chicken.
2006-08-21 01:10:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whether there is a god or none, it is still the chicken which comes first. You need chicken (two chickens, male and female to produce and care for the egg/s). The egg/s will never survive without the chickens rearing them. So it must be the chicken/s which come first.
2006-08-20 23:30:53 · answer #3 · answered by Paul A 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, God made the Chicken. Then the Chicken laid the egg. =]
2006-08-20 23:25:35 · answer #4 · answered by Angel Isabella 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to be the chicken how would the egg get there
2006-08-20 23:27:03 · answer #5 · answered by Ski_Bum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken first. Ever seen chicks follow the mother hen everywhere she goes? Who would the first chick have followed? Who would have laid the egg and sit on it forever till it hatched?
2006-08-21 05:55:41 · answer #6 · answered by justmemimi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human came first. Then it took a wild bird and domesticated it, and, over hundreds of years, brought it to be the chicken you know.
2006-08-21 03:24:53 · answer #7 · answered by Elerth Morrow ™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world will never know! But I say it was the chicken!
2006-08-21 05:23:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flip a coin! just kidding. There's no way to tell!
I am going with the Chicken as my answer.
2006-08-20 23:58:29 · answer #9 · answered by Quinn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First the chicken & a c*ock. Then eggs. Then more cocks & chickens.
That is the package scheme of creation.
2006-08-21 00:53:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken evolved from a fish
2006-08-20 23:34:45 · answer #11 · answered by Stacy B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋