what came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

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 2

The Big Bang, the elastic expansion, the super strings as things cooled down a mite, the force particles and antimatter, the quarks, electrons, protons, neutrons, atoms, molecules, primordial soup, bacteria, viruses, trilobites, a few million years, the dinosaurs and wallah, a chicken, then an egg -- this proved to be a bit quicker on average as long as bipeds did not consume too many.

Answer 3

The chicken came and then the chicken and rooster produced eggs that hatched into chickens.

Answer 4

The chicken. Like ever thing else. The chicken evloved. Then laided eggs.

Answer 5

Am I people?
No you're a chicken.
Do chickens come from people?
No chickens comes from eggs.
Are eggs born?
No eggs are laid.
Are people laid?
Some are, others are chicken.

Answer 6

people who say egg are wierd. I read the bible and payed attention in school and my parents told me in 4th grade. It's the Chicken to lay the egg.

Answer 7

The Rooster came first. At least that's what the chicken said.

Answer 8

The chicken-- God didn't create eggs

Answer 9

chicken

Answer 10

wow are you beingin silly girl ? everybody knows that egg come first then chicken does.