who was first the egg or the chicken?

Answer 1

Obviously, the CHICKEN, coz GOD dosn't lay EGGS.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

If there was a chicken, then the chicken had to come from an egg. The egg probably came from something very chickenlike, though.

Answer 4

I would say the egg, there can't be a chicken without an egg. Except in Noah arc though, but I would say the egg was first.

Answer 5

At one time there was something that laid an egg that became the first chicken . The egg came first.

Answer 6

The chicken. If the egg came first, then there would be nothing to take care of it or raise it. And chickens would be a lot meaner today!

Answer 7

The egg and chicken appeared at the same exact time...but, nobody knows from where...
The chicken was inside the egg as a baby....and it was a good thing that 'Perdue' wasn't around at the time or else he would have killed it, making it extinct...

Answer 8

The chicken

Answer 9

"Never was there a time when I was not, nor you nor these kings; nor shall we ever cease to exist hereafter"

Lord Krishna to Arjuna, "Now listen. as regards ourselves and all these kings and others who have gathered here, it is not true to say that they will live long or meet with sure death. If you get rid of your delusion, you will realise that it is not so. What we see as birth and death are due to illusion, Maya; otherwise the entity which really exists is indestructible (101-105). Look if the wind produces ripples on the water, can we say that something is really produced? And when the wind ceases and the water becomes flat, what is it that has ceased? Think over it. "

Answer 10

The chicken. The creator always before the creation. God must have put a chicken & a rooster on Noah's Ark, right? :)

Answer 11

From a christians point of view -the chicken.