What came first...chicken or the egg?

Question

i reckon the chicken....he was lay on his back next to the egg smoking a cigarette

Answer 1

The chicken 'came' first - all over the egg (=;

Answer 2

I used to say that it was the Egg, as the first chicken egg must have been a mutant laid by it's ancestor the Protochicken, which is not really a chicken at all, same as a neanderthal is not human.
But this is cheating as it only pushes the question back to whether the protochicken came before the proto-chicken egg.
You can do this backwards in time to the great big cosmic egg that gave us the universe, which was presumably laid by the ultimate chicken God.
Some people just won't let it go, usually kids, and ask what made God. It can't end.
The question is a philosophical one that illustrates what you might call a human obsession with cause and effect. If we were a computer this sort of question could cause a crash, so you can see it as a programing flaw needing a 'patch', God being as good as any.
Note also how the question also asks whether time itself is finite.

Answer 3

The chicken had to come first because otherwise the egg would not have stayed at the right temperature during incubation unless God kept it in His pocket for 21 days, and it was a lot easier for God to just make a chicken than to carry an egg around that long. It also would have risked breaking the egg if Satan decided to do something stupid. Chickens Akbar...Akbardoodle dooo!

Answer 4

Chicken

Answer 5

gotta be the egg.. how can the chicken grow otherwise?
if youre religious youd probably say god made the chicken.
if not you might say the egg because the fully evolved chicken (assuming that a fully evolved chicken is the definition of a chicken) occurred after the egg had been laid.

Answer 6

The egg, in evoloutionary terms, chickens are birds, descended from reptiles, who all use eggs, Reptiles in turn decended from fish, who also use eggs. Thus the egg came first, and the first chicken, was born to parents of an older ancestor, who then had a fight over who the father must had been... broken home,

Answer 7

The egg came first

Answer 8

I reckon the chicken

Answer 9

Chicken coz Bvsh Sr became prez first and then his 'dumb'ya egg after.

Answer 10

I thought when I read your question first. You was serious about this, but I guess not. Just in case you really want to know. [chicken] why? God, made creation first.