2006-08-26 06:44:16 · 28 answers · asked by stella 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
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2006-08-26 06:50:51 · answer #1 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in the Bible, the chicken came first. "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said, 'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven'." Genesis 1:19-20. Chickens are a type of fowl, so the Christian Bible says that chickens came first.
If you have a different religion, you might have a different belief about the how the treasures of the earth came to be. In the science of evolution, both chickens and eggs came before man. Since both the birds and the eggs were on earth first, historians weren't around to record which came first.
A chicken can't be born without a chicken egg and a chicken egg can't be laid without a chicken. Both chickens and eggs are important!
Per CNN Article:
Chicken and egg debate unscrambled
Egg came first, 'eggsperts' agree
Friday, May 26, 2006; Posted: 7:33 a.m. EDT (11:33 GMT)
2006-08-26 06:47:34 · answer #2 · answered by Keith Perry 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think scientists figured this question out last year. Apparently due to evolution the egg came first. Something that wasn't quite a chicken laid the egg and due to mutation and evolution it was a chicken. So the egg came first.
Damn Clange928 just got there first with that answer!!!!
2006-08-26 06:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by P_Dogg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken needed to be in existence to lay a chickens egg!!!!!!
So the egg the Chicken came from wasn't a chickens egg now was it......
evolution my friend
2006-08-26 06:53:27 · answer #4 · answered by st_john_gumby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right. Once again: the egg came first, because your quesion is unspecific and dinosaurs laid eggs.
To the next person who's going to ask this inane question, could you at least phrase it along the lines of "Which came first, the chicken or a chicken egg?"
2006-08-26 07:13:11 · answer #5 · answered by johninmelb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a weird feeling that various animals many many many years ago eventually evolved to become a chicken.
It would all start with a bird like creature and they would keep reproducing and because of climate change the kept changing and then many years ago, a weird bird like creature had laid and egg which had a chick in it and as the chicken got older he (or she!) reproduced with it's closest ancestor and from then on, the original creature disappeared and the chicken was finally formed!.
This makes me believe that the egg came first!
2006-08-26 06:58:56 · answer #6 · answered by A.Prinz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say the egg, because the chicken evolved, and probably something slightly not a chicken laid an egg with a fully evolved chicken inside.
2006-08-26 06:50:54 · answer #7 · answered by calculusheyhey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My answer to this is the chicken, because no-one ever says, 'what came first, the egg or the chicken?'
Problem solved!
2006-08-26 07:52:04 · answer #8 · answered by used to live in Wales 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken was already forming the egg inside. So perhaps they both came at the same time. I like the first answerer's reference to the Bible myself.
2006-08-26 06:53:34 · answer #9 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perry was right....
God Created Everything and blessed it saying be Fruitful
So Chicken was the 1st and then the Egg
2006-08-26 06:51:00 · answer #10 · answered by Eby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg was around long before there were any chickens.
2006-08-26 06:51:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋