If an egg came first what laid it or if a chicken came first wouldn't that prove Creation?
2006-10-29 06:51:24 · 15 answers · asked by ken 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
People that struggle with the idea of evolution just aren't realizing the sheer timescale that is involved. Were talking about billions of years. Chickens live for 8-10 years. Guess how many generations of pre-chicken organisms could have lived in a billion years? We're talking about a lot of generations.
To further complicate this issue, chickens are not really natural creatures. Chickens were artifically selected for over thousands of years of domestication by humans. We picked the birds that had the best traits for livestock, and only allowed those ones to breed. Over time, this process turned a 'chicken-like' creature (probably related to the pheasent) into a 'chicken'. Think about it. Do you think chickens would survive in the wild on their own? No. They're fat, dumb, and flightless. All really good traits for a domesticated animal designed to make eggs on a large scale, and provide meat.
So, to answer your question, neither is correct. Each new generation was a little more 'chicken-like' than the last, and its completely arbitrary to say at what point the organism was officially a chicken.
2006-10-29 07:08:35 · answer #1 · answered by Geoffrey B 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
To the people who say you need a chicken to lay an egg: Fish can lay eggs, insects can lay eggs, spiders can lay eggs, platypus (or is it platypi?) can lay eggs and reptiles can lay eggs.
In the evolution of a chicken, you can trace back the lineage to a probable reptilian creature. I would not be suprised if it were sometime in the Mesozoic times. The eggs yielded a reptilian creature but it was a little different from its parents. Stronger limbs or perhaps a couple of scales that were feathering or something else (it might have been so subtle that no one could notice it without a microscopic examination). In any case, this creature is a little bit different. It grows up and shares it different genes with the rest of the reptiles and generations down the road, pretty much all of the reptiles will start sharing this trait. (Assuming that this genetic difference is something that is survivable and especially if it is something that will allow the creature to take advantage of something). Repeat this process a few million times. The creatures at the end of this saga will look nothing like the original reptiles. In fact, multiple species can emerge from this one group of reptiles from the Mesozoic.
So back to the question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg. Without any doubt. The egg was around millions of years before chickens.
2006-10-29 15:46:03 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Takes a chicken to lay a chicken egg...but evolution is so gradual and slow...it's kind of hard to pinpoint exactly when you call something a chicken as opposed to what it descended from. Basically it works like this...a bird exists and the environment may start to change. Natural selection favors some traits over others, so as different alleles are passed on more frequently, the bird starts to change. Fast forward a few million years and you have yourself a chicken. Eggs did exist before chickens, but chicken eggs are only laid by chickens...so, chicken first, egg second.
2006-10-29 14:55:58 · answer #3 · answered by Shaun 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God created the chickens with the other animals. Later, chickens started to lay eggs. So, the chicken came first.
2006-10-29 15:48:08 · answer #4 · answered by No, You. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This staement is philosophic and the objective is to prove if creation took place or did evolution take care of everything. I believe the chicken came first because i believe in God. Many may have opinions about it but just have in mind that it questions evolution or creation.
2006-10-29 20:33:57 · answer #5 · answered by Warpforce3022 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You never specified what type of egg, therefore the egg came first. Animals have been reproducing using eggs long before chickens were domesticated. This isnt really a matter of faith, as domestic chickens were technically created by humans (just like domestic dogs and cats).
2006-10-29 15:24:29 · answer #6 · answered by Xiphos 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. All things were created through Him and through Him all things were created. So there was no egg necessary for the first chicken. For just as every other living creature, it was placed on this planet by the Word of God. God spoke and there he was, a full grown chicken.
2006-10-29 15:02:51 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Birds evolved from dinosaurs, which laid eggs. Thus when the first chickenlike bird emerged, it did so from an egg laid by it's less-chickenlike parent.
I like Eggs.
2006-10-29 15:00:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Which came first? Creation: Chicken, Evolution: Egg
The answer to your initial question would help prove the next question... if/when the first one were provable.
2006-10-29 15:00:04 · answer #9 · answered by volleyjacket 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It is true that an egg gives birth to chicken.After that chicken laid eggs.
An egg is a god gift.
2006-10-29 14:57:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋