2006-09-15 05:45:02 · 17 answers · asked by andrea s 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This question has been asked 939 times before on Y!A.
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Still no consensus, though. :-)
2006-09-15 08:49:08 · answer #1 · answered by Drew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It had to be the chicken, because there would be nothing to protect the egg while it allowed the life inside to grow. If the egg came first, there would be no adult chicken to teach it how to survive.
So even by evolutionary standards, being "survival of the fittest", there is no such thing as a fit newborn against the harsh reality of the world.
2006-09-15 14:40:51 · answer #2 · answered by joelgehringer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first.
Before humans like you and me, there were beings in between apes and humans that we evolved from, and long long before that (skip a few eons), beings that perhaps wouldn't even be recognizable to us as human-like or ape-like. We are the result of specific and fortunate genetic mutations.
In the same way, before chickens came along, there were prehistoric creatures that chickens decended from. Which means the egg came first, since they would have been laid by chicken-like creatures, not chickens as we know them.
Cool question!
2006-09-15 13:03:45 · answer #3 · answered by star l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken
2006-09-15 14:23:26 · answer #4 · answered by Carmenasks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggs-- Dinosaurs layed eggs... And they were aroun more than 65 million years before the chicken.
2006-09-15 12:56:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How about this
Egg came first then gave birth to chicken, now this chicken gave another egg. now we have both chicken and egg
i think its gibberish but whatever, this is a stupid argument
2006-09-15 15:00:27 · answer #6 · answered by vick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course the chicken.
2006-09-15 13:00:13 · answer #7 · answered by krishnokoli 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken of course ! All things were created by God, without him nothing was created. Animals were made the same way as Adam and Eve were. GODBLESS.
2006-09-15 13:00:55 · answer #8 · answered by soulrenewer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, assuming that all life follows a pattern, and the pattern of human life was man, woman and then child, then I would have to say the rooster was first, shortly followed by the hen, and then one plus one made three.
2006-09-15 13:14:59 · answer #9 · answered by MornGloryHM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Had to be the chicken.
Where would the egg have come from, a tree???
2006-09-15 12:53:19 · answer #10 · answered by xtrapr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken
2006-09-15 12:51:52 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋