The chicken or the egg?

Question

Did anybody ever figure out which one came first? How?

Answer 1

Assume, its an egg. However, to make an egg, you need a hen and a rooster. So egg is incorrect.

Assume its a chicken. Hoever, the first ever chicken has to be either Hen or Rooster, cannt be bi-sexual. In that case, the evolution might have stopped there itself.

ANSWER:
Chickens were first made by an ancient intelligent civilization thru experiements similar to cloning. Soon they started making both sexes of chicken. They knew futuristic people would be too lazy to hunt for food and raise thier grain, they thought populating the world with chicken would lessen the fight for food and would keep fat guys on thier a.s.r.e all the time eating chicken.
Then the art of cloning disappeared when they did a terrible experiment which went wayward and destroyed all of thier civilization, except chickens.

btw, if you were asking abt my last dine out, i ordered an omlete and a pepper chicken, egg came first, they said, they were cleaning the chicken :))

Answer 2

Let's start from the premise that the chicken evolved from another species. A specimen of this species laid an egg which hatched and wasnt quite a chicken. This in turn laid another egg which again wasnt quite a chicken. I think the point is that a species is always slightly evolving and so what is a chicken now is not exactly the same as what a chicken was 100 years ago. So the answer to what came first 'the chicken or the egg?' is the amoeba!

Answer 3

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.

History of the problem

The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..."

Various answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humorous.

Answer 4

In a way the egg came first. One of life's earliest stages
was the single cell. That's what an egg is, a single cell.
The single cell was in its complete adult form. As it
evolved it found it had a survival advantage by morphing
into something more. But it still retained the original
mechanism of reproduction. That is, it was easier to
recreate its earlier form(its egg) than to recreate its
new self in its entirety. So there was an evolutionary changing of this growth to a greater degree of complexity
but the adult form still reproduced by creating that egg.
Inside mammals, including humans, there are eggs. In
the female, the egg cell, in the male, the sperm cell. So the egg still comes first, and always did.

Answer 5

I think it's the egg,, because the first chicken came from an egg,, if we assume that there was a process of evolution.

Answer 6

When we stuidied this is Science we believed the Chicken came first: The basic chicken evolved from other animal specise while still breeding to produce eggs. All animal came from bacteria so why not ask where did the first pregnent woman come from? See what I'm getting at though?

Answer 7

Eggs are delicious! Chicken is quite good too is prepared correctly. I love chicken sandwiches, but egg is just slightly tastier. Medium-boiled eggs are the best where the center isn't hard and dry but isn't totally liquid either. It's a soft solid and moist.

Answer 8

The egg came first. Then the chicken came first. But who really came first? Maybe the rooster . . .

Answer 9

The egg of course, because Dinosaurs laid eggs before the chicken had ever evolved.

Answer 10

Nethier Well maybe the egg because probaly the ansister of a chicken must have layed a strange egg and it could have hatched into a chicken thats my opion...