which came first...??

Question

which came first... the chicken??... or the egg??...

Answer 1

Ahh, I love this question, because the answer is so much simpler than people actually think. You see, the question says "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" It does not specify what type of egg though. Now let me ask you: which came first, the chicken, or the dinosaur? The dinosaur, of course. Dinosaurs used to lay eggs. So the egg came first! haha, weren't expecting that, were you? (Please give me 10 points for originality, lol...)

OK, I just found this article on CNN that will actually answer your question:

LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.

"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."

Answer 2

Yes, you need an egg to become a chicken.....You also need a chicken to lay an egg. Hence the nature of the riddle.

It depends on what you believe in. I belive in creation - the bible says god created animals on the 6th day, along with Man (who was created mature) Therefore, I believe the chicken came before the egg.

I don't know what you believe......

Answer 3

Chicken

Answer 4

Egg

Answer 5

Can u have a chicken and no egg?
Can u have an egg and no chicken?
So I guess the chicken....cause u need a chicken to lay an egg to have a chicken and so on and so forth.... I tried...

Answer 6

Ya momma!
I'm kidding. It was the egg. The chicken needs something to reproduce with!

Answer 7

the egg. Dinosaurs were laying eggs millions of years before chickens evolved. That's one big omelette

Answer 8

The egg, of course. Dinosaurs laid eggs long before there was any such thing as a chicken.

Answer 9

egg. Other animals then chickens lay eggs. animals that predate the chicken.

Answer 10

the egg