or was it noodle soup?
2006-11-11 11:08:42 · 28 answers · asked by fluxpattern® 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
I`m sure soup has something to do with it....
2006-11-11 11:15:27 · update #1
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2006-11-11 11:16:16 · update #2
It didn't really work like that. The creature that eventually evolved into our present-day chicken must have gradually evolved into an egg-laying creature.
However, whatever you recognise as the 'first egg' must have been laid by some creature which you must therefore (it seems to me) recognise as the first chicken. In this sense, then, it is the chicken that came first.
But your question is (perhaps unintentionally) deep. Of course, you can argue backwards from eggs to embryos - which came first, a creature or its embryo. And of course, the same argument as above applies.
But you then have to ask where did the first recognisable organism (ie one capable of creating a next generation) come from? And the answer must be a primordial soup! Presumably, a very basic, reproducing chain of proteins came together by chance. It only needed to happen once, and very crudely, before natural selection would drive the whole thing forwards from there. Given that it had about a billion or so years to happen, it doesn't seem so unlikely...
So there you go. In short, the answer is chicken! But in the longer term, the answer IS (almost) noodle soup.
2006-11-11 11:21:48 · answer #1 · answered by Perspykashus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Aristotle, actuality takes precedence over (comes first before) potentiality. Eggs become chickens, chickens do not become eggs (they lay eggs, they don’t become eggs). Therefore an egg is a chicken in potentiality, but a chicken is a chicken in actuality. Therefore the chicken came first.
2006-11-11 19:20:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually the Chicken did. Looking at it in an evolutionary sense; Life started as a one celled organism in the sea and slowly over millions of years evolved into something a little more complicated until eventually what used to be in the sea crawled out onto land and evenually evolved into many diffrent animals which includes the chicken, which prompmly laid an egg....thus the omelette was born.
2006-11-11 19:13:35 · answer #3 · answered by cabjr1961 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
god di not create a pregnant chicken so as the majority states the egg came 1st to grow into a chicken which then reproduced. confused go to this site it may be of some help
2006-11-12 05:55:54 · answer #4 · answered by the one and only 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. Dinosaurs existed before chickens, and dinosaurs laid eggs. So the egg came before the chicken.
2006-11-11 19:19:13 · answer #5 · answered by curiosity101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. God created a chicken, and it layed an egg. Then that one grew up and layed another egg which produced another CHICKEN. Chicken first. Chicken, chicken, chicken.
2006-11-11 22:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by misskenjr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOT AGAIN!!! IT WAS THE EGG. They proved it at Nottingham University. It was laid by a Pteradactyl or something and then mutated into a chicken before it hatched.
2006-11-12 13:35:27 · answer #7 · answered by Cream tea 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it evolved from a newt, one day it was a newt and the next day it grew feathers and wings and became a chicken. The egg came much later when it found it had nothing in the pantry to make an omelet
2006-11-11 19:14:01 · answer #8 · answered by philipscottbrooks 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
nope i disagree I think it was the chicken...god didn't put a pregnant woman on earth first did he?? no he put the human first and then came the egg. So my answer is the chicken..
2006-11-11 19:13:37 · answer #9 · answered by Tera 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Rooster who cares if the egg or the chicken came or not.
2006-11-11 19:17:15 · answer #10 · answered by Crazy Diamond 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋