2006-09-02 01:37:11 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
an egg doesn't lay itself
2006-09-02 01:38:32 · answer #1 · answered by Campbell Gramma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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?
2006-09-02 17:31:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 In the dictionary, chicken comes first.
2 If you have a yard race, a chicken comes first.
But
3 If you drop a chicken and an egg from a height, the egg comes first to the ground.
4 If you throw them up to a height and look from the top, the egg comes first.
I think it depends on where you look from.
2006-09-02 01:48:51 · answer #3 · answered by curious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". Since both the chicken and the egg create the other in certain circumstances (a chicken emerges from an egg; an egg is laid by a chicken) it is ambiguous which originally gave rise to the other. Purely logical attempts to resolve the dilemma result in an infinite regress, since an egg was caused by a chicken, which was caused by an egg, etc. Since every chicken originates from its egg, it seems obvious the egg came first. Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life. The solution may require an examination of syntax and may rely on verification from advances in modern genetic science. When used in reference to difficult problems of causality, the chicken and egg dilemma is often used to appeal to the futility of debate and lay it to rest.
2006-09-02 01:39:07 · answer #4 · answered by Fluke 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the egg.
Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.
Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.
The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg.
2006-09-02 02:08:15 · answer #5 · answered by babychi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken, and I can prove it! Way back when I was in my first life, I saw this great ship in the sky, that said Kentucky Fried on the side of it. I know it was from outer space and was long shaped like a cigar, with flashing lights. I was at a Football game in Florida when I saw this. It said chicken on the side of it, Not Egg. Also; it said Good Year on the other side, and I had a good year! If that's not proof, then what is?
2006-09-02 01:47:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken came and ate the egg.
2006-09-02 01:42:22 · answer #7 · answered by dsalln1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It must be the chicken. Women have eggs too, they're just not as big, and no one asks "what came first, the human or the egg", do they?!
2006-09-02 01:43:12 · answer #8 · answered by Emily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken of course, if the egg came first there wouldn't have been a chicken to take care of it, for it to hatch.
2006-09-02 01:40:42 · answer #9 · answered by CoCo-Puffs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its obvious.. Life started in the sea. Fish lay eggs..Life moved onto the land, then came reptiles etc. They lay eggs. Birds developed later. Eggs were around long before chickens..If you believe in eveolution that is. The bible tells us that GOD made the world mankind and all the animals. It said FUKC ALL about any eggs.
2006-09-02 03:59:21 · answer #10 · answered by drrengland d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken...
no, egg.....
no wait , chicken
no egg, definatly egg!.......I think....or was it the chicken....
what i really want to know is what did the dinosaur mother think when out of one of her eggs hatched a chiken. i'll bet she was surprised!
i wonder how big the chicken would have been?
wait does this mean the chicken came first, if the egg was a dinosaur egg, or did someone else lay the egg????
2006-09-02 01:46:59 · answer #11 · answered by LR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋