2006-10-10 21:08:59 · 13 answers · asked by yarh00id 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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 13:24:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What came first was a bunch of single celled organisms, who, through billions of years evolved into animals that could lay eggs, then, there was a bit of an evolutionary glitch, the animal devolved, and thus we had the chicken.
The universe is too old to even imagine.
I'm not a alone, I'm at the office - there's plenty of people around...am I facetious? Yes. Seriously, we are not alone, how could we possibly believe that we are it, in the entire universe. Even if it's just some pond scum out there - waiting to become something better!
God isn't a who - god is a feeling. When someone does an unexpected kindness, or when you look into the eyes of the one you love, or listen to children laughing...thats god.
What next? I'm going to go get some coffee... ooooh, what next in general? :-) I'm afraid I'm an eternal optimist, even when confonted with irrefutable evidence to the contrary... So, what's next? Something nice!
2006-10-10 21:25:03 · answer #2 · answered by Karring Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken came first as god made a pair of each species just like how he made Adam and Eve.
The Universe was created to send Adam n Eve into this world, and what may seem to us like billions of years may just be a matter of seconds to God.
Next is only the end.
2006-10-10 21:13:16 · answer #3 · answered by Huda_Alee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
someone had to come for the egg to be made, so the chicken. the universe is really really really, really old. we are only alone when no one else is around. God is the chief engineer, who sometimes can't be found, and north korea is going to end the world.
2006-10-10 21:14:39 · answer #4 · answered by gallow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg came first.
universe has no beginning and end. it is eternal.
we are not alone. co-existence is the rule applicable at all levels of existence.
God is a concept created by man for explaining what he can't.
Realizing humanity on Earth is next.
2006-10-10 21:16:05 · answer #5 · answered by Rakesh Gupta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe is merely a tiny bubble in the great froth of existence.
2006-10-10 21:18:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't completely comprehend your question. I agree that the dinosaurs have been around, I agree the earth is hundreds of thousands of years previous and that i think of God made all of it. i don't think of the Bible is the place it extremely began out, I in simple terms think of it is what we ought to renowned genuine now. extremely, in case you seem at it, each and every of the bones and artifacts, God set up one great treasure hunt for us that has saved us going for hundreds of years! he's a terrific God.
2016-11-27 20:56:06 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken, billions of years old, no we are not alone, God is the Alpha and the Omega, death is next
2006-10-10 21:11:06 · answer #8 · answered by coral 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken. 6087 years. Yes, we are. Yahweh. Eternity
2006-10-10 21:11:36 · answer #9 · answered by Augustine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first give me answe what is the figuer before 0 and what is the end of figur in counting
2006-10-10 22:19:36 · answer #10 · answered by Akmal Zaidi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋