what came first egg or hen?

Answer 1

the answers given the other 727 times this was asked not good enough for you ? FOOL

Answer 2

the egg. my explanation: if the hen was originally evolved from some kind of bird, then there has to be an egg before there could even be a hen that grows and develops out of it because the offspring of the parents would always be different from them unless the parents are identical, so each generation of birds are different and then ancient farmers breed it into a hen.

Answer 3

i would go with the hen. the logic is, no hen no egg. yes, its true that no egg, then there will be no hen, but who creates the egg? hen creates the egg. some will debate and say God created the egg then it hatches into hen but think about it this way, how will the egg hatch when there is no hen to keep it warm? therefore i maintain that God created chickens first, then along comes the eggs.

Answer 4

The chicken of course. Go made and ang God made the animals, insects, ect... everything! So go figure. If the egg came first who was going to take of it? The hen and the rooster had to be there first. Think about it.....Adam and Eve weren't babies when they were made... so why make the egg first!

Answer 5

The chicken since the chicken we know today is an evolution of something that came before it. Also if you want to go way back to the first organism to lay an egg, the organism came first since it evolved from an organism that didnt lay eggs. Even if you use religious methodology (heaven forbid) chickens were created as is. Meaning in both arguements the chicken comes first.

Answer 6

The answer depends upon whether you believe in evolution or creation.
If you believe in evolution then the egg came first: Genetic variation occurs with every generation, the creature that laid the first chicken egg was ever so similar to a chicken but genetically different enough to not be classified as a chicken.
If you believe in creationism then the chicken was put on this earth in adult form and hasn't changed.

Answer 7

In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

Answer 8

The hen is actuality and the egg is potentiality.

Answer 9

God created the animals...like the hen, and then the hen made eggs...so hen then the egg :-)

Answer 10

Still in debate, but its more likely that the egg came first, because chickens are not the only animals to lay eggs

Answer 11

The Rooster "came" and the hen laid the egg.