In your own words as a test of your i.q explain to me why neither the chicken or the egg came first?

Question

Self education

Answer 1

This is probably the worst conceived of iq test in the history of mankind, but...

Well, given the literal limitations of your question without imposing assumed meaning onto it, something had to exist before either the chicken or the egg for either to come into existence, and so technically whatever that "thing" was, would have been the "first"

A creationist would say that God existed "first"

A scientist would probably discuss the blackhole singularity giving away and causing the"big bang" and the slow accretion of matter into stars and planets as pre-existing the chicken or the egg.

However, answering with the cultural baggage/assumptions, I believe this question is flawed, in trying to place too much emphasis on linear causality.

Evolution is a very slow and deliberate process, functioning with the whole of the planet. If you conceive of the planet as one functioning "biological body" that self-corrects, the evolution of the process of reproduction (though evolved very differently in different particular environments and species) can be viewed as a gradual natural process that can't necessarily be completely traceable and isolated to a particular species.

This question suffers also from an assumption that the "egg" being referred to is the specific 'eggs" that develop into chickens. However, the first chicken (because an animal's DNA does not change during its life) had to have existed as an egg.

But, if you take that to a lower level, before the egg or the chicken, must have been the genetic mutations in the DNA that caused whatever species actually created it, and these would have occurred during its procreation, before it was defineably "an egg" or "a chicken"

Now, a further problem presents itself, and that is the problem of reproduction. The definition of a species, (if I recally correctly) is that members cannot reproduce with any other species. And thus, during the creation of a species, more than one member must be created, and they must be created at a synchronous enough time that they could reproduce together to create their descendents. Which suggests to me that somehow, some guiding force decided it was "time" for such an invention. Similar to the remarkable tendency for people at very different points on the globe coming up with the same inventions at roughly the same time period ( and this was demonstrated long before a person across the globe from another could have much by way at all of communication with each other).

Answer 2

okay if the egg came first how did it get here by a chicken but the chicken has to come from the egg at one point so that is how neither came first unless there were two eggs first

Answer 3

the theory of evolution states that species substitute over the years via ability of mutation and sexual duplicate. in view that deoxyribonucleic acid could nicely be changed in basic terms till now delivery, it rather is argued that a mutation ought to have taken place at concept or interior an egg such that a creature equivalent to a hen, yet no longer a hen, laid the 1st hen eggs. those eggs then hatched into chickens that inbred to offer a residing inhabitants.for this reason, in this mild, the two the hen and the form of its egg more advantageous concurrently from birds that, jointly as no longer of the comparable suitable species, progressively became further and extra like recent-day chickens over the years.

Answer 4

I think people who say chicken are stupid. It is the same as asking what came first - the baby or the person? Well, obviously you start out young and grow... and neither a chicken or an egg would have just popped up. It comes through evolution.

Answer 5

Here it is in 25 words or less:
Neither the chicken nor the egg came first because the egg is inside the chicken and the chicken is inside the egg ad infinitum.

Answer 6

The chicken didn't causa sui, or wasn't created ex nihilo

So it came from a non-chicken.
The chicken didn't come first

Either God made the chicken
or from a non-chicken species sufficiently similar to lay a mutant chicken egg.

Chickens aren't eggs. Chickens are chickens. They aren't embryos. Inside the egg there is nothing until it hatches. Unless you believe life begins at conception. In which case, the chicken came from God.

But if you believe that life begins at conception and not God, then the egg still didn't come first. The embryo did.

Not the chicken: God, non-chicken ancestor
Not the egg: Chicken appears while hatching (doesn't 'come from' potentiality but springs into being at once in actuality) or it came from the embryo, or it came from God.

Answer 7

And just who is judging this I.Q. test? You? I would like to know what your qualifications are before I invest in answering.
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Additional:
Well, I am glad I didn't waste my energy answering it!
My question to your question was not intended to imply that you had a low I.Q., but your question seemed to imply that you had an IQ superior to everyone else. I simply wanted to know if this was so. This question gets asked several dozen times a day and the askers have all sorts of reasons for what they consider the correct answer. It gets a bit old. And in the end, the email you sent didn't give me any reason to think that you had a valid answer or a reason for it except your religious leaning toward scientology. That is no answer.
And I am sorry that you don't like my identity name.

Answer 8

Well, I am a christian, so I believe that the chicken came first, because when God created the animals, he didn't create an egg, he created a chicken.

Answer 9

Well...An organsim developed that means of reproduction long before that organism involved into what we now know as a chicken, so the egg came first, by a long run. Your IQ test is faulty.

Answer 10

The question "Which came first the chicken or the egg?" is asked in regard to specie-ation and is a valid though simplistic question in this regard.