2006-10-09 05:39:15 · 8 answers · asked by the.chosen.one 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
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.
2006-10-10 04:19:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well with out the chicken you wouldn't get an egg so Chicken! But it takes two to make an egg! So where does the other one come in! Would it be egg first then!? No that's not right OH I give up! It's Monday I shouldn't be made to think this much on a Monday! Good luck on this one!
2006-10-09 12:48:27 · answer #2 · answered by shookyloo® 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2006-10-09 13:34:01 · answer #3 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs had eggs
Chickens came from Dinosaurs
The answer my friend is eggs came first
The chicken evolved as everything tasted like one particular thing but no one knew what it was, there was a niche to be filled, and the chicken came along and all the other animals went, aaaahhh that's what everything tastes like
natural selection at its' finest
2006-10-09 13:01:33 · answer #4 · answered by Ichi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you ever seen an animal morph into another one? probably not, the answer is clear. a genetic mutation led to what we know today as a chicken, within the egg.
2006-10-09 12:48:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't the best answer always get 10 points?
2006-10-09 12:52:08 · answer #6 · answered by Punky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i think nobody came first. it was discovered by aritotle or the 1 which is known as the fist philosopher it was discovered in a toilet when that philosopher was doing what every body do in there. i hope now nobody will ask such a ridiciulis question
instead i ask u a question who come first mother or child?
now answer me u ...........
2006-10-10 15:18:38 · answer #7 · answered by pure gold 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken
2006-10-09 15:37:47 · answer #8 · answered by Jubei 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋