What came first the chicken or the egg? You need a chicken to make an egg & you need an egg to make a chicken

Answer 1

Quite simple: the proto-chicken laid an egg which contained the gamete for the first official chicken.

Answer 2

Predominately, and according to basic logic, the chicken had to have come first.

The chicken is necessary and rooster are necessary for the initial creation of the embryo, and for the development of the egg prior to egg being laid.

The chicken is necessary for the pre hatching care of the egg.

When the chicken has kept the egg warm, and the egg has hatched, then we have a chick which required mother hens protection and guidance in the early stages of life.

If the egg were created first, it would have set there, and set there and after a period of time, the egg would deteriorate to the point of being rotten.

Try and explain the above in favor of the egg being first. You will find yourself creating numerous unexplainable scenarios.

In addition, the good book speaks of the creator creating the birds and foul and fish in the seas. No mention is made of eggs being created first. (Not exact wording, from memory.)

Good question,

Darryl S.

Answer 3

GOD Almighty Created the Chicken First, so the Chicken could lay an Egg!
Why did the Chicken cross the Road? The Chicken wanted to
"Lay it on the Line."

Answer 4

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 5

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 6

If you believe in evolution the egg bearing chicken came first and evolved from a walking fish, which evolved from a non-recognizable orgasm, which evolved from an amoeba, which evolved from a living cell, which evolved from a non-living pile of goop, which came from eternal cosmic soup that caused a big bang.

If you believe in creation the egg producing chicken still came first because God created it as an adult chicken capable of producing eggs for the purpose of reproduction.

Take your pick but in both scenarios the Chicken came first.

If you like that one, then try this one... What happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?

Answer 7

Well, Studies have shown that life started with a single cell organism. This was figured by the adaptation that they grew to multiple cells which were mammals. So the correct answer would be "The chicken came before the egg.

Answer 8

I think the egg. I think that after a long time, some kind of bird/spcies changed over time. So one day that bird or spcies layed a egg. Then the egg hatched, but it was a new spcies called a chicken. So the chicken race continued on and on and on. I know the bible doesn't teach evolotion and I'm a christain. But I kind of think that god ment for that to happen. Like that was his plan. I guess we'll never know for sure until we die.

Answer 9

It is written in Genesis 1, The Spirit hovered over the waters (like a bird over her eggs.)

I asked God this question once, then Pastor preached the definition of how the Spirit hovered.

I believe in physical creation, the egg came first. Then things were brought forth (birthed).


Of course the waters brought forth the birds one day and on a different day the land brought forth birds. There are two different kinds of bird species. I believe if egg layers, the birds were brought forth from the water, including the egg bearing amphibians, etc...

Answer 10

Chicken came first.

A chicken can survive without the egg...if it evolved from something else.

The egg could not survive without the nurturing of a chicken. If not for the chicken, the egg would never hatch.