2006-10-21 10:35:22 · 52 answers · asked by lupyloo73 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
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.
2006-10-22 04:19:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, what a trick and very well thought question? All I can say that we would have to figure out if the one that layed the first egg ever was a chicken? If yes you layed that chicken if we need a chicken to make an egg? If no is that another thing that God began in this world that we just have to go way way back to answer? Biology may have an asnwer. Great Question.
2006-10-21 10:42:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2006-10-21 10:37:19 · answer #3 · answered by JustPeachy !!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2006-10-21 10:38:23 · answer #4 · answered by Nicola L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken, the only way the egg could have gotten here, was to come out of the chicken.
2006-10-21 15:42:22 · answer #5 · answered by theladylooking 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was the egg, because the bird that came before was not a chicken - it was "almost" chicken, and the egg contained a genetic mutation that allowed "chicken" to come into being once the egg hatched.
2006-10-21 13:40:39 · answer #6 · answered by Pegasus90 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken-little
2006-10-21 10:42:25 · answer #7 · answered by novembr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. Without a chicken egg, there is no chicken. However the animal just before the chicken in the evolutionary line could have laid a chicken egg due to slight genetic mutation.
2006-10-21 10:39:09 · answer #8 · answered by Christopher C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken of course. God creates all things and then give them the means to multiply. I am being too serious..but a chicken can lay an egg, but an egg can't lay a chicken.
2006-10-21 10:38:38 · answer #9 · answered by seek_fulfill 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The egg.
Evolution gradually shaped the ancestors of the chicken from something that wasn't a chicken into something that was a chicken. The last step was when the proto-chicken laid an egg that hatched out a chicken. So the egg came first.
2006-10-21 10:37:34 · answer #10 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋