2006-08-28 04:42:38 · 19 answers · asked by Cocoa 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Which came first - the chicken or the egg? "The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.
Reframing the question
It could be said that the question simply requires one to know the context. Most people thinking of the question automatically think of the timeline and it is in this manner that both the previous evolutionary theory and religious teachings contexts arise. Other potential contexts are:
* Having looked through a dictionary from front to back, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
* When you walked through the supermarket, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
* When reading the menu, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
2006-08-30 01:38:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has been asked thousands of times. The answer must be the chicken since an egg cannot be laid without one. Ah, well, you say, but a chicken cannot be born without hatching from an egg. Wrong! The chicken would have evolved from some other creature, possibly a sea creature or airborne pterodactyl, and as it evolved began to lay eggs rather than give live birth since, during that time it would be more vulnerable to predators.
2006-08-28 14:01:07 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Aristotle, actuality takes precedence (comes first) over potentiality. An egg becomes a chicken, a chicken does not become an egg (it lays them, it doesn't become them). Therefore, an egg is a chicken in potentiality but a chicken is a chicken in actuality. Therefore the chicken came first.
2006-08-28 17:02:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg because the egg could be made by anything. The egg might not always need a chicken to make it hatch. The egg hatches and then that chicken teaches itself stuff and hatches it's own eggs, so it is definitely the egg.
2006-08-28 12:13:20 · answer #4 · answered by idkmybffrose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first.
Once upon a time, something that was not a chicken laid an egg with a mutated embryo in it that WAS a chicken.
2006-08-31 11:33:48 · answer #5 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg had to come first if you follow the evolutionary ideal. IN order for a chicken to produce another chicken, it had to be born first, the logical evolutionary decendant of other birds. Once this chicken is created, it is born of two "non-chicken" parents...in an egg.
2006-08-28 11:48:00 · answer #6 · answered by Marvinator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg the chicken evolved from another creature
2006-08-28 11:48:20 · answer #7 · answered by 98ta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg - many prehistoric animals laid eggs before the chicken came around.
2006-08-29 13:22:55 · answer #8 · answered by The One Line Review Guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you follow Christianity, the Chicken came first. If you follow Evolution, the egg came first.
2006-08-28 11:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by krodgibami 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles and even other birds were all laying eggs long before chickens evolved. So the egg definitely came first.
2006-08-28 11:45:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋