What came first the chiken or the egg?

Question

My dad asked me this question & I was like dumbfounded... Any one knows a logical explanation?!

Answer 1

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. 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.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/index.html

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Answer 2

According to Aristotle, actuality takes precedence over (comes first before) potentiality. Eggs become chickens, chickens do not become eggs (they lay eggs, they don’t become eggs). Therefore an egg is a chicken in potentiality, but a chicken is a chicken in actuality. Therefore the chicken came first.

Answer 3

The egg.

Dinosaurs had eggs. There weren't any chickens running around in prehistoric times, as far as I know.

Yay for logic.

Answer 4

Since nobody ever stipulates it was a chicken egg you have to say the egg came first. Dinosaurs laid eggs millions of years before chickens existed

Answer 5

One would think that an almost-chicken laid an egg with a genetic alteration that produced the first true chicken, if you think evolution is reasonable.

Answer 6

If you look in a dictionary, Chicken comes before Egg

Answer 7

There were eggs long before chickens

Answer 8

To my way of thinking the chicken had to come first developing from one celled animals up into the first primitive chicken that developed a reproductive sysytem.

Answer 9

Chicken, God made the physical chicken before the egg.

Answer 10

The egg, I agree completely with WWD