Who Came First Egg Or Chicken?

Answer 1

The idea of both of them.

Answer 2

When you ask the question what came first you are really asking how does evolution work. Evolution says that species change over time. When a spices changes it is changing ever so slightly over time. It all depends on errors or mutations that are passed on from parent to offspring. These changes might or might not be expressed in the offspring depending on if an outside force is there to stress the species. Like drought, climate change, isolation of the species or competition from another species. Read about Darwin's Finches and it will give you a good idea on how this works. The species will either adapt or perish.
So back to your question. I would say that the egg came first because the offspring is ever so different then the parents. Not another species but ever so slightly different then the parents. This starts it on its way to species differentiation.

Answer 3

This is an old and classic question which puzzles everyone even today. I read a recent article on this in a major news website. It had a long list of debate questions and interesting answers and finally concluded that Egg came first. The reason being....even though logically we might think chicken must lay egg for egg to come into exsistence, the scientific debate concluded that since life starts in basic embedded form and since egg is more basic than its evolved complicated version called chicken, egg must have come first. An egg has everything embedded with basic ingredients but which has a all the complicated dna stored in it already. So scientists think, its easy for egg to show up with ingredients from nature instead of chicken showing up magically without an egg.
Even though this answer caught my attention, i still want to keep an open mind and search for more intelligent answers since it keeps your mind healthy by thinking about all the rational possibilites. I also want to share another thought. This might sound crazy but...i think single celled organisms might have evolved without egg just by using the right amount of ingredients like carbon, sunlight, water and minerals. The evolved organisms might have gone through several mutations and eventually might have grown into multicellular organisms over the period of time. After the evolution of complex organisms, may be those organisms started laying eggs to replicate itself or multiple itself. This will leave the conclusion that chicken came from an ancestral single celled organism and not from another chicken or egg. Well...whatever the true answer might be, these are all big questions that still interest us.
Besides, i read an article on NASA several years ago about how sexual reproduction might have taken place after significant period of evolutionary time. Till then, organisms would multiple themselves like Hydra or Potatoes. Interesting theory.
Ofcourse....theologically speaking, we can say..god created chicken and shut down this question. But that will not leave room for rational constructive debate. I am a strong beliver in God(or energy or superme soul or whatever we may call), but that doesnt mean we have to ignore evolution theory. We all have brain not to keep it idle but to use it to think about a subject, ponder upon it, debate rationally and try to understand it rationally and still keep an open mind. May be evolution was simply a natural mechanism and that God (not necessarily a human figure) wanted to let it take its own course and evolve under his/her/its watchful eyes. Who knows.

Answer 4

had to be the chicken since there can be no egg without the chicken. I really think the rooster came first.

Answer 5

The egg. It was originally a mutated dinosaur or prehistoric beast's egg, but then more of the mutated dinos mated and got more muddled. In the end of all that mucking about in evolution we got a bunch of chickens. So, in context, the egg came first.

Answer 6

the chicken came first.. but it didn't produce an egg till later on in time. It gave live birth. An easy example of this, is with fish .. some lay eggs and others have live birth like whales... hope this makes sense.

Answer 7

Egg.
Animals other than chicken laid eggs before chicken existed.

Answer 8

Primitive birds that were the ancestor of chiken lay eggs that contained the first real chiken as we know them.
Eggs existed long before the first vertebrate appeared, hundre of millions of years ago. Insects lay eggs. Trilobites used tp lay eggs before they vanished million of years ago, crabs lay eggs, etc.

Answer 9

How wuld you define the change from chicken ancestor to chicken?

Answer 10

I believe the chicken did if you go by the bible..God put animals here on earth..not eggs..that's my belief

Answer 11

The rooster CAME first