2006-09-02 03:51:17 · 46 answers · asked by dundee_06 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Does it matter?
2006-09-02 03:54:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 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 17:33:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, to have a chicken, you need an egg, so the egg came first. But to have an egg, you need a chicken to lay it, so the chicken came first. But the chicken needs to hatch from an egg, so the egg came first. But the egg wouldn't be there if it wasn't for a chicken, so the chicken came first. But the chicken can't be here if it wasn't for the egg, so the egg came first. But...
Do you get the point?!?!? :)
2006-09-02 04:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken
2006-09-02 03:57:51 · answer #4 · answered by P P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would the first egg be incubated without a chicken sitting on top of it? The Lord God created the chicken, and it laid an egg. Just like He created two people, and they had babies. Asking this question is like asking, "which came first, the mother or the fetus?"
2006-09-02 03:59:49 · answer #5 · answered by firebyknight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Aristotle, actuality takes precedence over (comes first before) potentiality. Eggs become chickens, chickens do not become eggs (they lay them, they don't become them). Therefore an egg is a chicken in potentiality but a chicken is a chicken in actuality. Therefore the chicken came first.
2006-09-02 14:53:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the chicken because when the earth was created god made chickens and the chickens made the eggs
2006-09-02 03:54:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
UR starting 2 repeat URself.
I'm sure I've already answered this Q.
No worries, cut & paste here I come.
the chicken existed first, 2 lay the egg.
the egg couldn't have been there first, the food provided inside the egg 2 nourish the chick had 2 come from the chicken.
and b damned, can i find the news link i read it from!
don't u just hate it when that happens, huh?
2006-09-02 03:54:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has to be the chicken, I can't see the egg getting across the road
2006-09-02 08:06:47 · answer #9 · answered by hawkeye 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg cause fish lay eggs and they were there before the chicken
2006-09-02 03:57:54 · answer #10 · answered by barmyowlscoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg. Even dinosaurs used 2 lay eggs. Now, chicken came after dinosaurs, aint it?
2006-09-02 05:17:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋