who came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

Well god made a human first not a sperm and an ovum so I say he must have made the chicken before the egg.

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 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 3

According to Aristotle, actuality takes precedence over (comes first before) potentiality. Eggs become chickens, chickens do not become eggs (they lay eggs, they don’t become eggs). Therefore an egg is a chicken in potentiality, but a chicken is a chicken in actuality. Therefore the chicken came first.

Answer 4

the egg came before the chicken

Answer 5

The egg as it contains the DNA of the chick inside not the mother.

so in an evolutionary sense an animal very like a chicken but not an actual chicken laid the first chicken egg.

Answer 6

the chicken then came the egg.

Answer 7

The egg came first on a piece of toasted bread, sitting on a slice of pate & covered with a benedict sauce.
Next came the chicken fried in bread crumbs with bannana & pineapple fritters, chips & peas.
But some menues may vary

Answer 8

Supposedly dinosaurs predated chickens by several million years and some dinosaurs laid eggs, so the eggs came first

Reminds me of a very rude cartoon I saw...

Answer 9

I've never understood why this is such a debated topic when it's as plain as day.

God created MAN.
God created all the FISHES of the sea and MAMMALS of the earth in similar fashion.

There is NO MENTION of God creating just the EMBRYO of these entities.

Therefore, it stands to reason the chicken was created first. The chicken then created the egg.

Answer 10

The egg 'cause I had that for breakfast then chicken for my dinner

Answer 11

Its the chicken that came first.
bcoz created all living beings directly not thru their embry or egg. Like Adam was directly created, there is not debate on this isnt it.so similarly it goes with all the creatures.