There can't be a coconut without the coconut tree .... but it is a little like the chicken and the egg ... haven't seen that question here for a while now ...
2006-11-17 15:36:51
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answered by Anonymous
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RE: the parable of the coconuts
Both were designed simultaneously, as was everything else in God's creation.
The only reason there is a concept of before and after, or cause and effect, is that we as human beings perceive, experience and communicate in "linear" terms of past, present and future.
But God's creation is designed holistically across all space and time as one continuum. So your question is relative to context, based on the human experience.
If person A sees the coconut first, and then the tree growing up from it, then the coconut came first, then the tree afterwards.
If person B sees the tree first and then the coconut form from the tree, then the tree came first, before the coconut.
Both answers are right from their respective case, but wrong when applied to the other.
You may think this question is frivolous, but it actually has a rather deep application. I notice in church and state controversies, people argue whether state law comes before church law, or church law comes before state law. Instead of defining a context where both agree, they impose their own viewpoint and make the other person wrong (like case a and case b above, which are two completely different cases).
Thus, people who put the church before the state, and people who put the state before the church, argue without end over who is right and wrong, when both are right from their own perspectives, which are two separate cases, and cannot be compared.
No wonder they drive each other "coconuts."
2006-11-17 16:16:43
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answered by emilynghiem 5
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first of cocanut tree evolved and only after that cocanut was produced. ... cocanut tree was evolved due to mutation of plant genes and only after a new variety of plant specie was evolved (in this case cocanut) the means of its furthur continuity of race the cocanut fruit was evolved
2006-11-17 15:44:26
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answered by RAJU 2
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This is like the saying which came first, the chicken or the egg? You need a chicken to produce and egg and you need an egg to hatch a chicken.
You need a coconut to sprout to produce a coconut tree, and you need a coconut tree to produce a coconut.
So, you just go round in circles. I don't see how you can answer it.
2006-11-17 15:40:11
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answered by Latrice T 5
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It's just as good as asking the egg came first or the chicken. Though the cocnut does not have a seed inside it, a shoot comes out of one its eyes on the top and grows into a tree. So u can't say which came first
2006-11-17 15:35:34
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, both comments are racist. It doesn't matter if you're speaking positively or negatively about someone of another race, it's still racist. Racism is defined as the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability, so clearly if that girl only likes Barack Obama because he is black, she thinks the fact that Obama is black accounts for his ability to be a good president.
2016-05-22 00:13:20
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answered by ? 4
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basically both. the coconut tree came from the coconut in the first place it can go on and on, but no one will really know the true answer.
2006-11-17 15:42:00
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answered by Norlin 3
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Tree...the coconut is hollow with milk inside..no seeds
2006-11-17 15:32:31
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answered by Betty Boop 5
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god created ADAM first and then babies. not that babies became big and got married and had children!!!
so the same way i think the tree came first
and the chicken came first not the egg.
2006-11-17 16:24:41
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answered by pinkcloud2015 5
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coconut tree, a coconut doesn't just appear out of nowhere!
2006-11-17 17:22:18
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answered by ? 5
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