What came first the chicken or the egg? lol?

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

This would be the 4th answer.
The 3rd & 4th put together would have been my answer.

That is if you are a creationist then Allah made the chicken& therefore egg at the time of creation.

If you are not a creationist then the egg came first as a genetic mutation.

I like the answer about the rooster that was really creative.

Now the question becomes who came first the chicken or the rooster.

I'm betting on the rooster ( men always c u m first )

That leads to another age old question :

Why did the chicken cross the street?

Answer :
To get away from that darn rooster

Answer 3

The chicken. No, the egg. Seriously.

In evolution there were egg laying birds around before there were chickens. One day a chicken ancestor laid a mutant egg. It's DNA was sufficiently distinctive for it to be classified as the first chicken. But it hatched from an egg.

Like the first human say, was the offspring of two neanderthals.

Of course if you don't believe in evolution, it was the other way around. One day an intelligent designer waved a magic wand and said "let there be chickens". Because he always created things whole to start with. He wouldn't have said "let there be chicken eggs". Me, LOL.

Answer 4

Chicken

Answer 5

in accordance to Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics on the college of Nottingham, Professor David Papineau, of King's college London, and hen farmer Charles Bourns the egg got here first. "reason is right down to the undeniable fact that genetic cloth would not replace in the time of an animal's life. subsequently the 1st chicken that developed into what we would call a chicken, in all risk in prehistoric circumstances, would desire to have first existed as an embryo interior an egg."

Answer 6

The egg was around long before the chicken. I believe see creatures were the first to use it for procreation.

Answer 7

the chicken had to come first since it is the evolved from of some other animal. so it was hatched by another animal and then it became a speices of its own

Answer 8

A Chicken was created just like adam and eve were then , just as they were , god gave it the power to procreate.

Answer 9

the egg

Answer 10

Neither. It evolved from something else, and was abruptly referred to as a chicken.