2006-11-04 22:50:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
ok so you have all the srious answers heres the fun one....
One day the chicken and the egg were in bed together. After a night of rowdy sex the chicken rolled over and smoked a cigerette. The chicken was totally calm and smiling from one side of his beak to the next. The egg on the other hand was very frustrated and a little "cracked" So who do you think came first ???
Kidding of course... But I do believe the chicken. God created animals first then they reproduced.
Good question and fun too :)
2006-11-05 02:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by brookesingsalways 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does sound puzzling at first, but how much does one have to think until one realizes that both chicken and egg must necessarily have come from something that is neither a chicken nor an egg? This answer was knowable centuries before biology came about, yet people assumed there was some unsolvable mystery behind the issue.
The modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million year old resident of the Jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken.
The egg came first.
DNA mutations occur in the early stages of life of organisms. As you know, when new cells divide, the DNA within the nucleus separates nucleotides and duplicates, then two new helix are formed. The amino acids responsible for mitosis are prone to make mistakes to the genetic architecture-- a beautiful system of flaws that cause evolution and diversity in species. It's like the reason why children will look like their parents, but not approximately, they are a combination of both parent's ancestor genetic history and the result of new combinations in the DNA helix.
So according to fossil research, before the chicken was the "proto-chicken" and this bird was almost chicken, but not quite. Well this proto-chicken laid an egg with a mutation, and the interior change of the DNA was enough that the exterior of the new bird could be thought of as a new species.
The first chicken had to hatch from a chicken egg to qualify to be a chicken, so the egg came first
2006-11-05 04:24:35 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless a fully formed chicken (however young) materialized out of nowhere it had to be that the egg came first.
Eggs don't materialize out of nothing either so the egg that became the first chicken was laid by a non-chicken. Allowing for the speed of evolution it may have taken a long time for non-chicken creatures to get to the stage where one of their eggs produced what we would accept as being a chicken but that's not the point in question.
If there was a time when there were no chickens and, clearly, there are plenty of them now, then there was a precise moment when number one chicken appeared on the scene. This is the case however you define a chicken - a stage must be reached when a creature arrives that fulfills ALL the criteria for being a chicken.
That moment occurred in the only place it could occur, at the developmental stage of chicken-ness, in the egg.
2006-11-05 01:53:03 · answer #3 · answered by jayelthefirst 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the realm of philosophy there is no wrong answer to this question but from a scientific point of view the egg comes first absolutely.
A non chicken creature of some sort in the process of sexual reproduction produces a new mutation which leads to the first chicken egg.
2006-11-04 23:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by Cafegeek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An egg without fertilization would make a great omelete but no chicken.
So obviously the chicken came first along with the rooster.
They both evolved from the Dodo bird.
So there!!! No more egg chicken question. Now you know. Eat your omelete in peace :-)
2006-11-05 08:33:11 · answer #5 · answered by Ylia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggs were around long before the chicken. The question never defines which type of egg.
2006-11-05 00:44:55 · answer #6 · answered by Ridi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you are going to get a lot of dumb answers to this so get ready. But here I go. The chicken came first. No creature that we know of has ever popped out of thin air. God created the fowl of air and then they procreated. For those who say the Chicken evolved or the egg evolved all I got say is when pink elephants fly.
2006-11-04 23:01:52 · answer #7 · answered by ken 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think it was the chicken ...no wait it couldn't have been the chicken cuz a chicken comes from an egg!
forget it i don't want to think about it
2006-11-04 23:43:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please get it straight, the egg didnt come first, as this would suggest genetic mutation, and evolution which cannot be proven and is merely trickery on behalf of the devil. God made chickens first and thats that. You can read more about it in our fabulous online magazine http://www.answersingenesis.org and read more about how the earth is really flat in our other exciting online forum http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/
2006-11-04 23:11:14 · answer #9 · answered by wackywallwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution came first.
But the egg and hen eater was too short sighted and thought that God made them both!
2006-11-04 23:03:54 · answer #10 · answered by semiconductor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋