Christians and Atheist: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Question

I need to know your REASONING behind your answers.please

Answer 1

The ectoplasmic one celled animal.

Answer 2

It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into.....

But then again, where did the egg come from? From what produced it? Then again, you say it was the chicken, where did the chicken come from?

Oooooopppss I guess I should shut up, this was not meant for me, but I couldn't help it!!!!

But I say, Only God knows the Answer.....


Wait.... to add to Jabbas question.... If you say, chicken is the answer, then who created the chicken then? Same goes with who create the egg?

Answer 3

Joke answer: The chicken is laying in bed with the egg. The chicken takes a long drag on his cigarette and says "i guess that solves that one."

Real answer: The egg. Birds evolved from dinosaurs. Dinosaurs laid eggs. The chicken being a bird came along after their egg producing ancestors. Therefore, the egg was first.

Answer 4

Well, if the egg came first, the chicken would not have been there to lay it and sit on it and keep it warm. So where did the chicken come from?

In all likelyhood, from reptiles. Reptiles were around long before chickens.

So I would say the best answer is, the reptile laid an egg which became a chicken which laid the first chicken egg.

Answer 5

The egg.

Under evolution, the parents may have been 99.999% 'chicken' but varied slightly from that ideal goal -- in different ways. Thus, when the father and mother mated, the variations were not inherited. The mother's chicken version of one gene was inherited, not the protochicken version, and the same with the father's.

Thus, the egg would have been the first 100% 'chicken'.

Answer 6

Atheists: The egg came first because somehow, an animal must have adapted and changed during the course of evolution to produce what we now call a "chicken."

Creationists: The chicken came first. Fully formed and functioning at the time of its creation, it would then birth more of itself through egg fertilization.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve were not created as fetuses. There was no womb to contain them. They were formed from the dust of the earth, and then later gave birth to children. In the same way, all the animals were created, and then procreated offspring. Thus, the chicken was created before the egg.

Answer 8

The Egg first....The chicken wasn't domesticated and did not develop until much later. Eggs where around long before the chicken ever existed. Im an Atheist

Answer 9

What breed of chicken?

Just kidding.

Think of it like dogs. You have two dogs you like, one for fur and one for behaviour. So what do people do? They breed them. They do it again and again, picking the best from each litter to carry on the traits they want.

Until you have what? Purebred species. Humans just did what nature has been doing for thousands of years- natural selection.

We just made it unnatural, and much faster. This is what evolution is about, like the person who said the creature that laid the egg was 99.9999% chicken.

But that leads to what breeds of chicken? The farmhouse kind you see today? Cause let me tell you, wild chickens and pheasants ain't nothing like that. And one kind of chicken breeding with another kind, would have made a new kind of chicken.

So, coming full circle, what is your definition of "chicken"?

Answer 10

As the chicken evolved from a lower form of bird naturally the egg would have had to have came first. xx

Answer 11

They came at the same time. The egg contains the chicken so when referring to an egg, you are also referring to the chicken inside.