2006-11-03 16:51:23 · 25 answers · asked by furshluginer 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I am not sure why several people feel the need to give you an answer only stating this question has been asked many times before, but, sigh, they do.
As for me, I have, of course, heard the question since I was knee high to a grass hopper, but I haven't seen it on here. It's a fun question, one that everyone has thought about at some time, and good to ask every now and then for the new readers.
The chicken came first ( poof! there's a chicken ! ),
then laid the egg, which hatched a chicken or rooster, and so it goes!
I wonder how any of the life forms developed let alone which came first LOL
2006-11-03 17:29:12 · answer #1 · answered by Lola 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Darwinistically, since you didn't specify the kind of egg as being a chicken's egg, then the egg came first, otherwise there wouldn't be a first chicken to lay any chicken eggs. Whatever created the egg that hatched the first chicken wasn't quite a chicken.
2006-11-04 00:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by Roasted Kiwi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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 a 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.
2006-11-04 01:22:23 · answer #3 · answered by xxalexxx 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It has to be the chicken. An egg can't hatch unless it's been incubated by the mother.......unless a different type of bird took the egg in as it's own. Perhaps the first chicken was raised by a duck. Oh the possibilities are endless.
2006-11-04 00:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by copeland0077 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Easy Question heres the Easy Answer
God made animals first not eggs so the rooster came first then he made the chicken as a companion chicken rooster and chicken make a lil love chicken laid egg egg hatches and theres your chick theres your answer:)
2006-11-04 00:59:23 · answer #5 · answered by amberslilsis06 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From a philosophical point of view, i'd have to say the egg. The start of life doesn't begin in an adult. It begins when consciousness begins.
Course, if you want to debate about it on the realist point of view, i'll say chicken, cause if we assume the big bang theory correct, then the first organisms were bacteria. Bacteria bud/split to make new bacteria. It takes longer to develop a shell for a new living thing than it does to do something els.
To xxalexxx - wtf is a wikipedia.com?
2006-11-04 01:30:11 · answer #6 · answered by Roka 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
THE EGG
You see, a chicken and an egg had passionate sexual relations on the evening prior to Thanksgiving Day.
Immediately after the "sexual encounter" the EGG lit a cigarette...
That's It!
2006-11-04 01:06:19 · answer #7 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chicken can come from an egg only ,not from other places.
2006-11-04 01:55:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not sure how many times this has been asked before, but eggs came first.
The dinosaurs laid eggs, fish lay eggs both of which existed before Chickens
2006-11-04 00:56:04 · answer #9 · answered by Mike J 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created the chicken first, then the chicken laid the egg :)
2006-11-04 00:55:19 · answer #10 · answered by hearttwinbeat 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋