2006-09-02 13:29:17 · 10 answers · asked by the chosen ONE (or two) 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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 17:36:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Write out a long line of "1"'s and "-"s
Like this:
1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1
The "1"s are the animals, the "-"s eggs. Left to right represents time. Way on the left are "protochickens", the species chickens directly evolved from. On the right are chickens. As we progress from left to right the protochickens evolve into chickens.
Now at some point (and its fairly arbitrary) there is the first chicken.
Circle it. Anyone will do, just circle a "1".
Is the previous one a chicken? No - this is the first chicken, you have defined it as such, anything before this point is not a chicken.
What is to the immediate left of the circle? A "-", an egg. What laid the egg? A protochicken.
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
2006-09-02 14:16:58 · answer #2 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, if you think about it the egg would have had to have come first. The chicken comes from and egg, get it?
I guess i'll have to put details.
You see, evolution comes from mutation, please don't make me explain that too. Just trust me, so some species that is close to the chicken (but came before it) gave birth to a mutation of it's species, which was a chicken, i think it was gregory mendel who introduced natural selection, the (chicken) mutation population grew over all the other mutations from the previous species because it was able to adapt better to it's environment and survive, while the other mutations couldn't. If you don't understand what i'm talking about just e-mail me at adamschreier@yahoo.com so i can explain it in more detail.
2006-09-02 13:42:49 · answer #3 · answered by philisophical 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggs precede chickens in evolutionary terms. There's no dilemma about how eggs came about as long as you are willing to accept incremental changes. The simplest sexual reproduction today is probably among algea, where gametes simply find eachother randomly in the environment and fuse. It isn't so hard to see how having one of them stay attached to it's parent might prove to be an advantage from some predators, and then internalizing it to protect is for a period after fertilization, and then the formation of a membrane before ejectionto protect it further, and finally a hard shell.
Sexual reproduction precedes animal life, as do the prototypes for eggs.
2006-09-02 14:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the point of the question : What came first: the chicken or the egg? - is that there's know way to know and so it does no good to debate about it - it's irrelevant in a way. So when people use that metaphor in conversation, they usually use it to shed light upon an argument that is going no where for lack of concrete proof.
2006-09-02 13:35:59 · answer #5 · answered by me. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you look at the chicken as a breed then the answer is the egg. Reptiles laid eggs before chickens existed.
2006-09-02 13:31:17 · answer #6 · answered by JeffE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the chicken of course. how else could an egg get fertilized so it would hatch> come to think of it that would take two chickens now wouldn't it. Maybe that old noan knew what he was doing after all. but why did he forget those unicorns?
2006-09-02 13:36:57 · answer #7 · answered by La-z Ike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An egg will not produce life without a chicken to hatch it.
2006-09-02 13:38:08 · answer #8 · answered by Dad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In The begining God created heaven and the earth
Gen. 1:1. Evening and morning were the first day, evening and morning were the second, 24 hours was the first day of creation. by the way the Seventh day [not sunday] He rested and blessed and sanctified it, no where was the seventh day sabbath transfured to sunday, visit A Seventh Day Adventist Church and find out more about creation and YOUR creator, also free bible lessons www.itiswritten.com God bless you.
2006-09-02 13:36:23 · answer #9 · answered by wgr88 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can you imagine a child born to a virgin woman? for science you have to believe that Impossible; so far evolutions is concerned Believe Lord Jesus was born to virgin Marry..Here How can you say what come first?
2006-09-02 13:36:16 · answer #10 · answered by precede2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋