2006-10-21 18:31:37 · 20 answers · asked by Sarah Nicole 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.
2006-10-22 04:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the same argument of evolution. Could not the chicken have come first? By the idea that the thing that layed the egg didn't lay a chicken egg. But that egg hatched a chicken and then the chicken layed chicken eggs.
But over all, evolution is gradual, unless an extreme change in the environment happens, so when do you start calling the species a chicken. So for an official answer from an evolutionist's standpoint, neither. Chicken is just a word we give to an organism so another person can understand what we speak of.
2006-10-21 18:52:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken chicken chicken - how could an egg get here with out a chicken? Preferably 2 chickens - a male and a female... The chickens came from God the same way God created Adam and Eve as adults and not babies. Then Adam and Eve had babies. The same way those 2 chickens started laying eggs. That is the official answer.
2006-10-21 18:35:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes!!!! Yes. It's been answered.
The egg came first; dinosaurs laid eggs, and evolved into birds, and so eggs came before chickens, and even the first chicken hatched from whatever had a mutation that made a chicken egg.
2006-10-21 18:34:00 · answer #4 · answered by nora22000 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Chicken came first. Check Gen 1:20....GOD made the animals to multiply as we see in verse 24 of the same chapter.
2006-10-21 18:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the chicken because in gen. it say's he created the animal's not egg's and then he told noah to gather 2 animal's 1 male 1 female and put them on the boat not egg's.
2006-10-21 19:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by curious cook 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the chicken life form came first.
2006-10-21 18:35:03 · answer #7 · answered by The duhm kid 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you believe in creationism, as I do, then it was the chicken, of course. Then it layed the egg.
What is the point of your question, if you already had a certain answer in your mind? To give religious folks the big thumbs down? lol. I get these kind of questions all the time, and I could tell it was a set-up. I still love ya, babe.
2006-10-21 18:36:35 · answer #8 · answered by Safiyah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes there is, God created a chicken first and if u dont believe in God, then logically speaking something like a cell involved into chicken first then laid the egg because cells dont lay eggs.
2006-10-21 18:34:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know how you can get an egg without a chicken laying it.
2006-10-21 18:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by hmmm... 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋