What came first - the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

I've always heard don't count your chickens before they're hatched
I never heard don't count your eggs before they're laid

so I think eggs came first

Answer 2

The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". 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 egg.

It was laid by a Red Junglefowl, a Gallus species originating in Asia. It is not a chicken; it is, however, the ancestor of all chickens.

Somewhere down the line, one of the Red Junglefowl's eggs' DNA was mutated, and the egg produced a new kind of bird, a chicken. Which means, the Red Junglefowl's egg came before the chicken. And the first true chicken egg was laid by that chicken.

Answer 4

Well if you believe in the story of Creation from the bible, the chicken definately came first.. Adam, and all the animals were created by God and then they procreated.

If you believe in evolution point of view, this animal evolved slowly until it became the modern day chicken. At some point and time this pre-chicken creature mated until it hatched as the PERFECT chicken, thus, the last two pre-chicken creatures who made the modern chicken mated, then the perfect modern chicken resided in the EGG until it hatched. Making the EGG the modern chicken hatched out of come first.

or something like that. I can't believe I attempted to answer this question. I'd like mine scrambled please, with a small amount of ketchup.

Answer 5

Well the chicken had to start off from somewhere so I say the egg, a very messed up egg, different from that which had come before it.

Answer 6

Good question....if the chicken came before the egg then who made the egg for the chicken to hatch?..If the egg came before the chicken what made the egg...?....Nobody Knows...

Answer 7

Well, chickens come from eggs so the egg came first.
But where did the egg come from?

Well probably chickens evolved from some other specie........

I guess its safe to say tht God created 1 of em first but we don't know exactly what.....................

Answer 8

It had to be the chicken.An egg could not just spontaneously appear out of nowhere.The chicken came first,and then laid the egg.

Answer 9

Essence precedes existence therefore the egg came first

Answer 10

Wn the whole earth was flooded by water Noah in his boat, collected one pair of all the species of life in his boat [as instructed by GOD']
perhaps he had a chicken [hen] that laid eggs afterwards.