10 points for the first person who gets the answer right and can tell me why?

Question

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Remember you need to tell me why.

(I know the answer and have a reason that cannot be denied)

that was fast.

read the first answer it is the right answer.

sorry my way cannot be denied if you believe in evolution, and it is because the question say "the egg" not "the chicken egg" and both fish and reptiles laid eggs way before chickens evolved.

Answer 1

For the last time the egg. Eggs were 1st produced by reptiles long before birds even existed

Answer 2

The egg came first. The egg is from the female of the species and is often fertilized by the male in the form of sperm. Although it has been noted by the other posters about the reptilian eggs, they have forgotten that fish and amphibians also lay eggs. Mammals also have eggs. So the big question is do you want your eggs with a hard covering or a soft covering?
Oh yes, I almost forgot our insect and other invertibrate egg layers. Butterfly eggs anyone? The below I got from Wikipedia

In most birds and reptiles, an egg (Latin ovum) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. It nourishes and protects the embryo. Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of many fish, amphibians and reptiles, all birds, the monotremes, and most insects and arachnids.

Reptile eggs, bird eggs, and monotreme eggs, which are laid out of water, are surrounded by a protective shell, either flexible or inflexible.

The 1.5 kg ostrich egg contains the largest existing single cell currently known, though the extinct Aepyornis and some dinosaurs had larger eggs. The bee hummingbird produces the smallest known bird egg, which weighs half a gram. The eggs laid by some reptiles and most fish are even smaller, and those of insects and other invertebrates are much smaller still.

The study or collecting of eggs, in particular bird eggs, is called oology.

Answer 3

DrB should get the points. His answer is the first right one. Any idiot knows this question means CHICKEN egg and not just egg because any idiot knows animals were laying eggs before chickens came around. But DrB was right in that the mutation occurred in the egg therefore becoming a chicken egg that hatched into a chicken. For an egg to hatch into a chicken it has to be a chicken egg doesn't it?

dinizle26, were you trying to be clever or something because you come off as an idiot in actuality.

Answer 4

Your answer eludes the assumption that the egg is an egg from a chicken, not a reptile.

Try getting a chicken from an egg laid by a Clidastes.

Answer 5

This question classicaly refers to chicken and chicken egg. The answer is the egg. The egg is where the mutation occurred to create the new chicken which will then lay other chicken eggs. The chicken cannot have come first because that fowl could not mutate into a chicken itself—the off-spring in the eggs are the mutations.

Answer 6

Since you said "the egg", I'm assuming you mean a "chicken egg"? If that is so, then I would say:
There's a fuzzy line between when a species starts to speciate and when it it's sufficiently different from the "ancestral" species to warrant it a different [scientific] name. And so then there really isn't a clear answer.

If you mean the egg of any species, then of course the egg came first. "Egg" is just a name for the female gamete. The female of a species is the one with the more nutritious gamete. So then "eggs" evolved as soon as sexual reproduction evolved.

I'm curious as to the reason you say cannot be denied?

Answer 7

Since reptiles produced eggs first, and one part of reptiles evolved into birds(and thus chickens), the egg would essentially come before the chicken.

Answer 8

The chicken

God created the animals first, which meant he created chickens first then the chickens laid eggs.

Answer 9

The chicken! No, the egg! No, the chicken! No, the egg!

Answer 10

the chicken did.... how can a creature lay the egg of a chicen with out beign a chicken?!?!? through evolution, the chicken evolved, and therfore the egg came after the chicken.
(thats my theory anyway)