what was first? the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

Mutations can only occur in fetuses, not in adults -- so, obviously, the egg came first. Simply put, the egg came from an ancestor to the chicken, a mutation occurred in the egg, and that hatched to become a chicken. Due to either the environment or selective breeding, many of the same or similar mutations occurred in a short time frame, and these mutants eventually replaced their parents as the dominant subspecies. Once they became so specialized or there became so many of them, they stopped interbreeding with their parents, at first as a social phenomenon, and then because they became so different that they couldn't produce viable offspring with their ancestors. At that point, the chicken was officially its own species.

Sorry to the fundamentalists, but the Bible does NOT ban evolution. In fact, the oldest version we have said God made the world in 7 epochs (a very unspecific term that roughly translates to "eras" and not days), which actually supports the idea of evolution more than anything else.

Answer 2

It was the egg McMuffin

MCDONALD'S EGG MCMUFFIN

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Breakfasts Soups
Vegetables Breakfast

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 English muffin
1 sl Candian bacon
1 Egg
1 sl American cheese
1 Empty clean can with the
Same diameter
As an English muffin.
(A 6 1/2-ounce tuna
cn Works best.)

1. Split the English muffin and brown each face in a
hot pan. Set aside. Keep the pan on medium heat.

2.In a saucepan of boiling water, cook the Canadian
bacon for 10 minutes.

3. Grease the inside of the can with shortening or coat with a nonstick spray.

4. Place the greased can in the hot pan over medium heat
and crack the egg into the center.

5. Break the yolk.

6. When the surface of the egg begins to firm, cut
around the inside of the can with a butter knife to
free the edges.

7. Pull the can off the egg; turn the egg over and cook for 1 minute more.

8. Build the sandwich in the following stacking order from teh
bottom up: bottom English muffin American cheese egg
Canadian bacon top English muffin

9. Microwave for 15 to 20 seconds on high for uniform heating, if desired.

Makes 1 sandwich.

Answer 3

Well, assuming you mean a CHICKEN egg, as opposed to any other kind of egg.... The chicken came first. For the creationist, God created the chicken first. For the evolutionist, the chicken still came first, because you could not have a chicken egg until there was a chicken to lay the egg. Next time, try to think through your question logically before you ask it.

Answer 4

neither. the "thing" we're talking about here was not a chicken in the first place. the chicken's ancestors, which were dinosaurs, laid eggs that hatched babies that evolved little by little for many many years until it took the form of the chicken we know today.
so we could say that dinosaurs came first.
the real question we should be asking is, what came first? the dinosaur or the egg?

Answer 5

probably the egg, because birds are closely related to reptiles.
eg, scaled feet, cloaca(shared anus and urethra opening) etc

In order for a "chicken" as we know it to be made, it would have had to have come from and egg laid by an evolving animal. After thousands of generations from egg to adult, The conventional chick was produced.

Answer 6

Evolution - the egg. Dinosaurs laid eggs. They always laid eggs. They evolved into chickens but still laid eggs.

Creation - the chicken. God made the animals and told them to multiply so the chickens laid eggs.

Answer 7

well, none of them appeared right away. The chicken evolved from a type of dinosaur slowly within millions of years. finally, it became a chicken, and it layed eggs. Its science.

Answer 8

in this sentence the chicken and then the egg.

Answer 9

Neither, in order for there to be a chicken or an egg the ROOSTER had to come first!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

chicken, bcoz the chicken had to grow up to **** its mate and the mate had to incubate the egg (sit on the egg) for the new chick to hatch.