which is first,the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

I sometimes eat eggs for breakfast and chicken at night, so eggs first.

Answer 2

What I'm getting from these answers is that some sort of prehistoric chicken or earlier version of a chicken laid an egg which became a chicken. The problem is in the definition of a chicken. Does the prehistoric chicken count? How early of the chicken evolution do we have to go until we can call it a chicken? Does it have to be domesticated? And no one ever mentions if it had to be a chicken's egg. What if alligators laid eggs first? Then surely they developed eggs before chickens existed. But what if there was a species of animals, the prehistoric chickens again, that evolved in a way that they started laying eggs so they didn't have to carry them around? And so they could have multiple offspring at once?

However... my favorite answer is still: Dinosaurs laid eggs way before there were chickens running around.

Edit: I can't stop laughing from the word 'chicken' now. It's fun to say.

Answer 3

The answer is simple. There had to be an organism before an egg was developed. So take a time trip back to when the earth was young. A heap of chemicals were floating around in a pool of water that was laced with chemicals from volcanic reactions. A lighting bolt hit the pool of water and the chemicals recombined. Hence, simple life was developed. This simple life required splitting of the cells. Further mutation caused by the addition of more chemicals and possibly lightning caused asexual reproduction.
Finally, an organism evolved that could produce an egg. Eventually , a chicken evolved that layed an egg that produced another chicken.

Answer 4

Chicken

Answer 5

obviously the chicken because the first chicken ever was a mutant of some other animal. And then that chicken layed an egg to make another chicken. Thats what happened.

Answer 6

If evolution on earth gave rise to the most primitive forms first, then i would say the egg came first, because it is much less complex and represents a primitive form of the chicken. You should not forget that the egg is, first and foremost, a cell, maybe it was an organism by itself before, which reproduced asexually by fission. Through evolution, it must have gathered complexity, and finally gave rise to the chicken, which has the ability to reproduce sexually and lays eggs. So according to this logic, the egg came first!

Answer 7

the chicken because how does the egg have life without the chicken laying her eggs

Answer 8

The egg. Fish lay eggs, as do reptiles and amphibians, all of which appeared on earth before chickens. There wwere also many kinds of bird around before chickens came along.

Answer 9

If you believe in the Bible than the chicken came first. If you don't than it was the egg.

Answer 10

Other animals laid eggs before there were chickens.