What came 1st? The chicken or the egg?

Question

Please give your answer and an explanation.

Answer 1

I think that it is obvious that the chicken came first, because God didn't create eggs, He created animals that were already completely grown up.

Answer 2

Onest?
Futility?

Oh yea the fact is neither came into being first. We just don't know because no one can tell because no one was around when it all began. Maybe it just started with the 'big bang'.

We assume that chickens always existed in their present form. That should be enough of a fallacy to understand that they did not. Chickens, which are birds once flew. That should be obvious because they still have wings. What we also don't know is when they stopped flying as other birds do. We also don't know when birds and other animals started giving birth to their offspring by laying fertilized eggs.

There are some humorous answers though.



It's Academic

There is one common answer that over 75 million people agree upon. People fluent in the Thai (Thailand) language will tell you that the first character or letter of the Thai alphabet is ก or "gaw" and is represented by a picture of a chicken. The second letter of the Thai alphabet is ข or "kaw" and is represented by the picture of an egg. So, this riddle for these people is a no brainer. The chicken came first and then came the egg.


Theological answers

According to creationists who believe in Biblical inerrancy, birds were created "on the fifth day" as adolescents or adults. Since there is no reference to the creation of eggs, they presumably were then made by chickens afterwards by the normal process. Therefore, the chicken came first.

Alternatively, for those who accept the intelligent design form of creationism, Eugene Volokh has noted that "In my experience, most creationists are also pro-life -- in which case, the egg is a chicken."

A question of syntax

One can consider the question inside the framework of experience, making the question concrete instead of abstract: "The chicken or the egg - which came first?" "The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.

Reframing the question

It could be said that the question simply requires one to know the context. Most people thinking of the question automatically think of the timeline and it is in this manner that both the previous evolutionary theory and religious teachings contexts arise. Other potential contexts are:

Having looked through a dictionary from front to back, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
When you walked through the supermarket, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
When reading the menu, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?

Answer 3

I think the chicken. Why? Here's my reason:

Just like humans, every animal evolved from another animal. So the chicken probably evolved from a bird-like dinosaur. Well, not the now-and-day chicken, but a bird like the chicken, which evolved, and eventually became the chicken we are so familiar with.

The egg must have come after, because the chicken we know of today then layed the egg. Plus, how can the egg come first because don't chicken eggs need to be care by another chicken like having it be kept warm by sitting on it?

Thinking about this too long makes me head hurt though! Haha.

Answer 4

the chicken must have come first because eggs can't live with out warmth. A grown chicken can take care of him(her)self. And not all of will like this explanation but in the bible Genesis. it says God created man and woman. Not baby boy and baby girl. So if God created Man and women then why I ask you why would he leave a chicken egg out to die(unless he wanted an omelet). when a grown up chicken can take care of him(her)self!




Oh! and one more thing! it defies all law of nature that the egg came first because there would of had to already have been a male and female organism to fertilize the egg not to mention lay it! i mean c'mon! An egg doesn't just mysteriously appear out of nowhere! it is not physically possible!

Answer 5

i think 1: the egg, because if there was no egg then where did the chicken come from?

2:the chicken, because if there was no chicken then where did the cicken come from?

so the logical answer must mean that (to anyone out there who doesent belive in god)god really does exisist. so god made both the chicekn or the egg, or the chicken nor the egg.

Right?

I hope i helped!

Answer 6

Neither. The chicken evolved just like all animal life from single cell animals. In another answer someone said they chicken mutated but thats not right it evolved slowly into a egg laying bird. Its just a form of reproduction that occured naturally over many many years. In the begining cells would divide and nature has simply become more diverse complex. Nature sort of experiments to find what works. Animals evolve and those who dont work in the enviroment they are in die. And nature tries something else until it works. How do you think animals can survive in exremes like temperature or depths of oceans with no sunlight. Simple evolution.

Answer 7

I honestly think that their was a moron standing right there way back then trying to figure this out too. Then chicken and the egg both got tired of waiting and just bailed on him and the world has been chaos ever since then.

It could have also been the moron's rotten egg farts that made both the chicken and the egg run away.

(I am not implying that you are said moron by the way)

Answer 8

The chicken because if the egg came first then how do you explain the egg coming out of nowhere?

Answer 9

Well, if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
answer me that!!
lol
but seriously, im going with the chicken first, cuz it'd make more sense for God to make the chicken first, rather than the egg, because he made fish, not fish eggs. Know what I mean?

Answer 10

Well, if the chicken did not come first, then God laid the egg. It wasn't the chicken that came first, but a remote ancestor of the chicken.