which came first ,hen or egg?

Answer 1

If you look towards scientific fact and not the bible for your answer, you have three reasons why the egg came first.

1) Fish, amphibians, and reptiles all evolved earlier than the chicken, and all of them laid eggs.

2) The egg came first because the chicken came from it and the egg was laid by the closest common ancestor (but not the same species). The egg had a mutation that made it better fitted for it's environment than it's mother, the chicken's ancestor, so this mutation survived and passed on it's genes to begin a new species.

3) During development (even in humans) the unfertilized female gamete is the egg. Only after the egg is fertilized by sperm does the egg develop into a chicken. Therefore during development the egg comes before the chicken.

As the only proof for Adam and eve is a story in a book, and each of these three are based on science (ie. fact), I would say the egg came before the chicken.

(before you start thumb-downing me, just so you know I am christian. The roman catholic church accepts evolution as the correct explanation for how we have such diverse life on earth.

Also, how can you take genesis word for word when almost everything Jesus said was a metaphor! When he said that he wold tear down this temple and resurrect it in three days, he wasn't talking about the temple, he was talking about his own body! Think about all of the metaphors (goats and sheep, seeds) he uses in his parables! If you believe that God really did create everything in 6 days, than why don't we celebrate the falling of a temple on Easter instead of Jesus being crucified and rising from the dead?

The story of genesis was written at a time where people would never be able to understand the complexities of how life evolved, and so the story of genesis was written to explain it. Please, I know you are smarter than the people of the middle ages. Adam and Eve did not exist, they were metaphors used to explain something complex to a simple people.

I believe in God. I don't believe that he created the earth in six days, but I do believe that he started the universe (maybe he was the big bang) and in six of his days the earth was formed. I also believe that man IS special: we are the only creatures on earth to recognize Him! I do not however believe that we were made from mud.)

Answer 2

Since both the chicken and the egg create the other in certain circumstances (a chicken emerges from an egg; an egg is laid by a chicken) it is ambiguous which originally gave rise to the other. Purely logical attempts to resolve the dilemma result in an infinite regress, since an egg was caused by a chicken, which was caused by an egg, etc. Since every chicken originates from its egg, it seems obvious the egg came first. Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life. The solution may require an examination of syntax and may rely on verification from advances in modern genetic science. When used in reference to difficult problems of causality, the chicken and egg dilemma is often used to appeal to the futility of debate and lay it to rest.

Answer 3

The answer would obviously be the hen because think about it, if the egg came first before the hen, who laid the egg in the first place?

Answer 4

the egg
In most birds and reptiles, an egg (Latin ovum) is the **zygote**, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. It nourishes and protects the embryo. Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of many fish, amphibians and reptiles, all birds, the monotremes, and most insects and arachnids.

In the stages of human babies:
Zygote, the point of conception, fertilization
Blastocyst the period between conception and embryonic stages
Embryo; the embryonic period starts at three weeks and continues until the end of the 8th week of pregnancy
Fetus; the fetal stage begins at the end of the 8th week and continues until childbirth
Birth
***the zygote comes before the embryo***
so the egg is first

Answer 5

The hen. Although it probably formed the same way an egg does, it didn't have the shell or anything like that.

Answer 6

its very simple the egg comes out from the hens backside. so its always the hen comes first then the egg.

Answer 7

I doubt you are looking for a serious answer here but here you go:

The egg came first. We know that chickens evolved from some earlier, non-chickenoid form of life, e.g., the half-bird, half-reptile Archaeopteryx. These non-chickens, however, arrived in eggs. Ergo, eggs were on the scene before chickens.

Answer 8

A team produced from a geneticist, reality seeker and fowl farmer declare to have chanced on an answer. It grew to become into the egg. positioned basically, the explanation is right down to the undeniable fact that genetic textile would not substitute in the time of an animal's existence. subsequently the 1st chicken that developed into what we would call a fowl, in all probability in prehistoric circumstances, could desire to have first existed as an embryo interior an egg. Professor John Brookfield, a professional in evolutionary genetics on the college of Nottingham, advised the united kingdom Press association the pecking order grew to become into sparkling. The residing organism interior the eggshell might have had the comparable DNA because of the fact the fowl it would become, he reported. "subsequently, the 1st residing ingredient which shall we are saying unequivocally grew to become right into a member of the species may well be this commonplace egg," he further. "So, i might end that the egg got here first." the comparable end grew to become into reached with the help of his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's college London, and hen farmer Charles Bourns. Mr Papineau, an expert interior the philosophy of technology, agreed that the 1st fowl got here from an egg and that proves there have been fowl eggs in the previous chickens. He advised PA human beings have been wrong in the event that they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-fowl" chicken mothers and fathers. "i might argue it quite is a fowl egg if it has a fowl in it," he reported. "If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would actual be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg." Bourns, chairman of commerce physique large British fowl, reported he grew to become into additionally firmly interior the pro-egg camp. He reported: "Eggs have been around long in the previous the 1st fowl arrived. of direction, they could not have been fowl eggs as we see them at present, yet they have been eggs." the communicate, which will come as a alleviation to those with argumentative family, grew to become into prepared with the help of Disney to sell the launch of the action picture "fowl Little" on DVD

Answer 9

A chicken and an egg are both lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette and has a very satisfied look on its face. The egg rolls over grumpily and says:

"Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question..."

Answer 10

the hen came first