What came first the chicken or the egg?
2006-12-05 04:27:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Was man created as an the result of fertilization, or procreation? Procreation... therefore... Chicken.
2006-12-05 04:30:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want a serious answer to this, then it has to be "the egg" of course............if you follow evolutionary rather than creationist theory, that is.
Evolution progresses because a mutation will provide a particular advantage to a being. The being with the mutation survives better than its siblings, therefore passing on its mutation to the next generation........and so on.
If this is the case, then the precursor to the chicken would have produced an egg which was more chicken-like, and so on, until an egg produced a mutation which could be described as the first real chicken.
So the egg must have come first...............
Phew ! Do I get any points for that ?
2006-12-05 12:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on whether or not you believe in evolution or creation.
If evolution, then the egg came from first. The chicken came from whatever wasn't a chicken that evolved into a chicken. The predecesor to the chicken laid a egg that had a specific mutated trait that made it the chicken, and the chicken was born from the chicken egg.
If creation, then the chicken came first. Because God created the chicken. He did not create the egg, because there wouldn't have been any parent chicken to nurture the egg into hatching.
2006-12-05 12:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by caste 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The egg was first by at least a couple hundred million years. Now, as to which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg, that'a a bit trickier.
2006-12-05 14:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by Amy F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll answer with a question. If the egg came first, who or what fertilzed the egg for it to hatch. It would make perfect sense that the chicken was first, and that chicken had both sexes in it - was able to lay eggs and fertilze them too.
2006-12-05 12:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by tripledavis 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually it was the egg. if you consider evolution then at some piont a creature very very like a chicken but not actually a chicken will have layed an egg that becomes a chicken
2006-12-05 15:55:29 · answer #6 · answered by supremecritic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. God didn't make Adam and Eve babies, so why make chickens eggs? But the real question here is why did that chicken cross the road after she was created? Does she have some sort of a death wish? And why doesn't anybody care about how the rooster got here?
2006-12-05 12:35:26 · answer #7 · answered by turdl38 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
This is a redundant question. It was answered 14 times just yesterday.
2006-12-05 12:30:20 · answer #8 · answered by Sophist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This question has been answered l400 times in my Phi class alone.
2006-12-05 12:36:23 · answer #9 · answered by Conrey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken,in ethereal form.
2006-12-05 14:10:24 · answer #10 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋