I done this at colege the other day in social science in philosophy, so what came irst the chicken or the egg?
2006-09-02 10:56:13 · 25 answers · asked by Jen :) 1 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Neither, because a chicken (as we know it today) slowly evolved from previous life, and it's eggs follwed suit.
There is no first, because the line between Chickens and it's genetic ancestors is not that distinct, since species are defined by the ability to procreate. Also, today's chickens are very slightly genetically different then chicken's from 1000 years ago and future chickens, so you'd have to define more closely what you mean by chicken.
2006-09-05 09:02:19 · answer #1 · answered by QFL 24-7 6 · 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 17:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have a natural evidence. Everything came from an egg... we came for an egg... but pay attention: the egg that bear the first chicken could not be lad by a chicken but from a chicken ancestral(maybe a bird)... and the ancestral came from the other ancestral(maybe a flying fish)... and we reach a time were nature compounded the egg without an ancestral... only joining cells.
2006-09-02 11:07:10 · answer #3 · answered by vahucel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2006-09-02 11:23:07 · answer #4 · answered by Tyr_74 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg
2006-09-02 11:03:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg did .. It started out as something else and will in the egg it got change because of some radiation or or chemical imbalance or something with what ever it started as ... those became the chickens and mated with them selves and hence forth we have lots of chickens from that so again the EGG came first ....
2006-09-02 11:03:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are the 1,278th person to ask that same question on here.
But it was the egg. What laid it? Something very close to a chicken, but not quite a chicken. That's how evolution works.
For example, where does a dog with white fur and brown spots come from? Does it HAVE to be from another dog with the same white fur and brown spots? Does it have to just appear out of creation? Or could it be the result of the genes of two similar dogs, but not quite having the same spot configuration as the puppy?
2006-09-02 10:58:54 · answer #7 · answered by Rjmail 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Billions of years in the past, in a primidoral swamp, little icky creatures started out the evolutionary technique. From them, some thing corresponding to a poultry appeared in some unspecified time interior the destiny and started out to place eggs. And billions of years from now, different beings will ask your self approximately what existence substitute into like interior the olden days while there might have been existence on the earth.
2016-12-14 16:55:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken, the egg won't hatch alone and to find food and keep alive in a barn yard alone. No baby chick could do that.
That would be cruel on god's part to make a baby chick without a mother to help it. A lot of them die with a mother hen.
2006-09-02 11:09:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken, it was created with the other animals - remember two by two, after that it layed eggs.... which created other chickens that came from the eggs!!!
2006-09-02 11:04:16 · answer #10 · answered by Auntie Alex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋