what came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

The chicken.

Think about it. There can be a chicken without the egg but there cant be an egg without a chicken.

Think about evolution. You might have had some chicken like thing that didnt lay eggs but something different. Then over thousands of years (or so) you get mutation and the chicken starts laying eggs rather than using the previous method. this could be evolution due to neccesity or it just happened randomly but in my opinion there had to be a chicken before there could have been an egg.

Alternatively you can turn this idea around. There was an animal (any thing, just not a chicken) that was laying eggs. and it kept doing that until, over time there wasnt this animal coming out of the egg but a chicken. and now we have the egg before the chicken.

Now you can pick which story you like best until some boring professor at some university stumbles across some information and will give you the right answer

Answer 2

A geneticist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer say they have found the answer to a great evolutionary puzzle.

The experts looked at the evidence in the long-standing debate over which came first - the chicken or the egg - and opted for the egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a genetics expert from Nottingham University, said the first chicken must have started out as an embryo in an egg.

This means the organism in the eggshell would have the same DNA as the chicken.

He explained that the reason was due to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Answer 3

The Egg came first, Dinosaurs were born and hatched out of eggs long before the chicken was around.

Answer 4

The chicken obviously. When a sperm and egg combines, what happens? It goes through the process called fertilization; meaning, that a LIVING thing has been conceived. Open an egg, what do you see inside? The yolk and the albumin (the white stuff), right? My question to you and to everybody who said the egg, is how did the yolk form inside the egg? When fertilization occurs, a fetus chick, if you will, has been conceived. To "protect" the fetus, or the yolk, from damaging, a hard shell forms outside, called the egg. Hope this helps. :)

Answer 5

The Egg

The chicken is a really sensitive lover, whereas the Egg is quite selfish in bed.

So, as many nights before, the Egg came first, leaving the chicken frustrated.

Answer 6

Neither, because a chicken (as we know it today) slowly evolved from previous life, and it's eggs follwed suit.

There is no first, because the line between Chickens and it's genetic ancestors is not that distinct, since species are defined by the ability to procreate. Also, today's chickens are very slightly genetically different then chicken's from 1000 years ago and future chickens, so you'd have to define more closely what you mean by chicken.

Answer 7

Chicken.
God created everything on earth. If He first created the egg, how would it hatch? You need the chicken to keep the egg warm to hatch. God knew if He first created the egg there would have not been any chickens on earth. He knows best.

Answer 8

The chicken. If you believe in creationism, you believe that God created the heavens and the earth, and the animals and creatures that dwelt in it. The Bible would have made slightly more difficult reading if the text had said "In the beginning, God created several million eggs, and waited to see what would happen. In order that these eggs may one day create something, he created the largest light the world had ever seen (the Sun), and shone it on them for a few minutes. This was followed by the coming of several million animals, and the world's largest omelette."

Answer 9

Byjiar gave the first correct answer. It was the egg which was laid by some sort of archeopterix like creature and the embryo inside then mutated and out came a chicken!!

Answer 10

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.