2006-09-25 19:44:47 · 25 answers · asked by omar 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
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.
2006-09-28 17:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by Wolfie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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 chi
2006-09-29 11:54:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is one that has been explained many times on this very site. I'm sure you found it many times when you ask the question because yahoo always shows other questions of the same.
The Chicken came first. The egg was laid by something else that was evloving. So to start with something on the fish side grew legs and walked out of the water. That that something laid an egg and it something else was born out of it. And over time this something keep evloving till one day they laid an egg and a chicken birthed out of it. So the egg was laid by something that was almost a chicken but a chicken came out of the egg. So it was not a chicken egg that the chicken came out of.
The chicken came first. Unless you want to call the egg a chicken egg because of what birthed from it. But it was really an almost chicken egg.
2006-09-26 22:31:35 · answer #3 · answered by Don K 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The egg, because the egg was being used by other animals before the bird or chickens came about. so the egg was around, then the chicken evolved.
egg first
2006-09-26 12:57:30 · answer #4 · answered by fish lips 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Chicken came before the Egg.
That is why the Egg is looking disgruntled, while the Chicken is sitting back on the pillow having a cigarette.
2006-09-26 06:27:25 · answer #5 · answered by catherine02116 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The egg came first. Pre-chicken bird-thingies were gradually evolving many years ago. They got closer and closer to becoming legal chickens. Then one day, a bird laid an egg that could qualify as being a chicken egg. And lo a chicken emerged from that egg, the very first chicken from the first chicken egg.
Either that, or Jesus snapped his fingers, said wazzup, and then the chicken just appeared.
2006-09-26 02:55:05 · answer #6 · answered by ralph w 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would guess chicken because an egg needs a chicken to sit on it to keep it warm before hatching.
2006-09-26 02:54:57 · answer #7 · answered by eddweeness 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has to be the egg. It cannot be the chicken as egg would have been easier and less complex for the gods to make.
Both are equally tasty.
2006-09-26 03:18:43 · answer #8 · answered by chimp 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
chicken- because egg comes from chicken
2006-09-26 04:45:06 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the chicken hatched from the egg, then the egg came first.
If the chicken laid the egg, then the chicken came first.
So simple, yet, so complex....
2006-09-26 02:54:30 · answer #10 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋