just wondering you see, as i have a theory......over the years, as evolution occured there were many different creatures being created through genetic mutation and the like.
I think that there wrer feathered creatures who kept having incestuous relations and so caused genetically deformed infants, who in turn had incestuous relations. This caused more and more deformed infants until one day, the egg hatched and the genetic mutant that popped out was, in fact, A CHICKEN!!!!!!
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2006-10-10 04:21:22 · 24 answers · asked by moominjen 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
who cares. . . . .I like them both . . . .Fried
2006-10-10 04:23:39 · answer #1 · answered by worldhq101 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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.
2006-10-11 20:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definately it would have to be the chicken that came first. The egg would not have even hatched if it wasn't getting sat on!!! ...or of course maybe they just used an incubator. Haha! If you've ever watched birds....they need to be fed food that is already chewed. A baby just CAN'T take care of itself alone. That's why God made Adam and Eve full grown adults! :) Of course, I see you think these animals came from incestuous relations. Well...if you study what happens in incestuous relations, it isn't a healthy, well formed creature...usually. ...and in ANY CASE....if it DID survive, it would still be the same as the creature that birthed it! Those kinds of changes...would be better represented as a mixed breed...such as a mule!
2006-10-10 11:51:49 · answer #3 · answered by Michali 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have the real answer!
The egg came first. Chickens are man-made creatures just like a dog. People started domesticating and in-breeding wild ground-dwelling birds from Africa to come up with the creature you now know today as the chicken.
So, one day after much human manipulation, out popped a chicken from an egg!
2006-10-10 11:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
eggs hatch in the likeness of the parent, so in order to have a likeness there would have had to have been something to create that egg. however chickens evolved, they, at some point, developed the ability to create, though maybe the shell came along later. the shell could have been evolution at work to protect the babies to make sure they lived. anyway, thats what i think. in other words, the egg came first from somewhere, and what came along was the chicken that possibly developed its own faculty to lay eggs.
2006-10-10 11:25:27 · answer #5 · answered by [TL] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first. Something that wasn't a chicken laid an egg with a mutant inside it which WAS a chicken.
Hard to discuss things on this board, there's no back-and-forth like in a true forum.
2006-10-10 11:25:17 · answer #6 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw this cartoon where it was the egg, only it was a dinosaur egg and it hatched out this fuzzy little chick and the daddy dinosaur freaked and wanted to squash it but the mama dino saved it. HAHAHA! Makes as much sense as any evolution theory.
Duh! God said He put forth all the CREATURES of the earth, not all the EGGS of the earth, so it was in fact the CHICKEN. End of discussion.
2006-10-10 11:32:33 · answer #7 · answered by dbackbarb 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree. There were definitely eggs that existed before the species of chicken evolved. Eggs (in general) came first before the chicken. However, if the question were "which came first, the adult chicken or the chicken egg?" it would be a different matter.
2006-10-10 15:33:01 · answer #8 · answered by zandyandi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say the egg of an animal (possibly the wild Indian and south-east Asian Red Junglefowl.) and then a Chicken was hatched.
2006-10-10 11:31:30 · answer #9 · answered by Mike J 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
silly question ALWAYS HAS BEEN !!!!!!!!!!
forget theory stick with logic - you must have an egg to hatch a chicken - you do not have to have a chicken to produce an egg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the only hard part is to decide which hatch produced chickens as opposed to proto-chickens ( where do you draw the line what about a bird makes it a chicken )
2006-10-10 11:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chickens had to produce the egg for the baby chick to come of it. You should know this by now.
2006-10-10 11:32:02 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋