Which was first, the egg or the chicken? Why?

Answer 1

I have no doubt about it that a hen came first because hen is needed to hatch the egg

Answer 2

Chicken !

It is why eggs are round, not square. How can the chicken lay a square egg? Only the (first) chicken with " intelligence (though not much)" could "think" what shape of eggs was good for it to lay.

Remarks:

1) Assume that neither the first chicken nor the first egg is not created by God.

2) The first chicken might be different from the chicken we see today.

Answer 3

This is the Answer:

The Egg.

Without specifying your question you are generaly asking for eggs themselves, and not neccicarily chicken eggs. Then Therefore, you must admit that animals that existed eons prior to chickens, or any other type of foul, created eggs. I.E. Dinosaurs.

However even if you specify the question to "Chicken Eggs" themselves, the answer is analogous. The thing which layed the first egg which housed a chicken was not a chicken, however the egg its self, was the egg with whitch inside lay a chicken. So that egg was the first chicken egg. Creationist= moot.

Answer 4

Which was first? The clouds or the seas? Day or night?
Neither and both. You cannot have one without the other. There is always a chicken in an egg and an egg in a chicken

Answer 5

Finally, my chance to 'lay' this one to rest once-and-for-all. The answer is "The Egg". Why? Well, other birds lay eggs, not just chickens, and if my limited understanding of evoluton is correct then the chicken must have been a mutation of another bird - the one that laid the egg. So, something a bit like a chicken - but not quite a chicken - laid an egg containing a slight genetic mutation that was the blueprint for what we call the chicken.

Answer 6

Not arguing the order of appearance or, which is what the question really intends, the validity of Creationism or Evolutionism, the answer is unequivocally: the egg.
I am honestly amazed at the amount of debate over this issue, when a little unthreatened consideration must show one the idiocy of questioning it one way or another. It is not inherently impossible, despite the contention of both sides, that both theories are sort of correct, and neither absolutely accurate, at least as it is currently argued.
Evolutionists refuse to credit anything more than chance in the creation of this vast and vastly diverse, yet imminently orderly universe, while Christians refuse to credit anything but perfected creation, when it is obvious to the rational mind that nothing comes from nothing, and not without due process. As any clear-thinking Christian should admit, God mostly often works through His own Creation, and individual species patently DO evolve, thus it was the egg which came first, with its attendant genetic alterations, which proceeded by whatever intermediate steps to the animal we now recognize as the chicken.
No debate is possible, if one has an open and functioning mind. If one processes the steps necessary to make the alterations which resulted in the fascinating chicken, regardless in what form it may have started out--and they must have been numerous and varied--there is no other conclusion to be drawn. And, as we only live in this universe, it really is nonsensical to be so heatedly debating how it came about--except as an intellectual exercise. The reality is that it exists without our contrivance or assistance, and will continue doing so until it ceases, or changes. Whichever. And it did so for many millenia without our giving the mechanisms of its creation and existence more than a passing thought. Well, okay, we gave it a lot of not-very sensible thought, and came up with a bunch of myths and theories, the validity of which we are unlikely to plumb anytime soon. But the final word, the absolute why, how and wherefore, will be answered only by the Creator of all that we so hotly debate, when it suits Him.
In the meantime, approaching the subject with reason and moderation rather than hidebound notions and stubborn refusal, is far likelier to yield an accurate guess.
Which brings me back to the obvious answer to the initial query. It was the egg.

Answer 7

They came to existence at the exact same moment and that was the second that the first chicken lay the first egg, because the second before that, the chicken was not a chicken, because it didn't lay eggs and as we all know, a chicken must lay eggs otherwise you can call it a chic or you can call it a ken but you can't call it a chicken.

Answer 8

The answer depends upon whether you belive in evolution or creation.
If you beliueve in evolution then the egg came first: Genetic variation occurs with every generation, the creature that laid the first chicken egg was ever so similar to a chicken but genetically different enough to not be classified as a chicken.
If you believe in creationism then the chicken was put on this earth in adult form and hasn't changed.

Answer 9

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.

As suggested by the alternative definitions and solutions given below, the chicken-or-egg dilemma has multiple semantic variants and can thus be viewed as an exercise in semantics. Regarding at least two of these variants, the field of biology contains decisive contextual information. Although the problem has been around in one form or another for millennia, making it difficult or impossible to know who first "solved" it, the biological information needed to resolve all of the obvious semantic variants has only been available for decades.

A modern analysis covering all of the major variants was authored by Christopher Langan, published in 2001 on the Mega Foundation website[1], and subsequently included in his book of essays, The Art of Knowing [1]. It appeared again in The Improper Hamptonian [2], was included in abbreviated form in a 2001 Long Island Newsday Q&A column featuring Langan [3], and was compactly summarized in Langan's 2001 Popular Science interview.

A CNN article on May 26, 2006 featured an analysis, according to which the egg came first [2]. The key criteria on which CNN bases its answer, involving relatively recent findings from reproductive and evolutionary biology, are identical to several of those cited in the prior analysis.

Answer 10

If evolution is true, then a near-chicken laid the egg for that which would be a real chicken. If the Bible account is true, then God created chickens, and chickens then laid eggs. That is the why. Decide which of those and you have your answer.

Answer 11

Honey, the egg, the shell of the egg is so strong that if nothing was left on earth to eat except an egg and water, I would eat the egg. Read up on eggs and find out for yourself how great they are.

Silver Birch