Try to give Theological answers to this question & let's see what answers I get!
2007-01-20 12:19:36 · 29 answers · asked by Jewel 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Chicken.
I say this because it is a reproduction process to lay an egg, and the chicken had to be created or evolved into a female gender, before it could reproduce.
2007-01-20 12:55:43 · answer #1 · answered by Jasper 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken is a bird. If you believe in evolution then the chicken evolved from its present form from something else, something that came out of an egg. Probably a dinosaur egg. So the egg came first, the egg of some other creature.
Evolutional theory
If you are trying to argue "What came first - the chicken or the chicken egg" - well that's debatable. I'd say the chicken because at one magical point in the evolution of winged feathery things a creature was born that could be classified as a chicken, but it's parent could not be, because mutations that allowed the chicken to survive and adapt made it so. To delve deeper into the evolution type idea one would have to compare different predacessors to chickens and compare body organs/features to see at what point a certain bird became a chicken.
Philosophical theory
A chicken is a chicken if we call it a chicken. One could do research back in time and see when people first started domesticating animals and when they first called a chicken a chicken. (According to Descartes "I think therefore I am" if chickens could talk we'd ask them if they are chickens, and if they said that they were chickens we could say they are chickens. You can't ask an egg that. Maybe an EKG experiment?)
Theological theory
God created chickens (i.e. a creature) during his 7 day creationist orgy of fun at the beginning of time. He created creatures, no mentions of eggs.
2007-01-20 20:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by opheliaissaved 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theo-Logical? Contradiction.
But the short version egg.
Long version...
When God set off the BigBang, and the earth cooled and life developed we had dinosaurs before chickens, but there were eggs. As the creatures scaled down and adapted to the changing environment feathers developed, and the critters kept changing. Egg after egg. Until finally the millenia of adaptation gave us the chicken from the egg of a chicken like ancestor. Creation is a long process.
2007-01-20 20:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by vaughndhume 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first. DNA arranged itself just the right way when some other bird closely related to the chicken was born. The bird had her eggs fertilized, went and layed them, and waited for them to hatch. The first chicken was then born. So the egg came first.
2007-01-20 20:27:25 · answer #4 · answered by tahirih.luvs2sew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That really isn't the conundrum people attribute to that saying. The chicken came first, because when God created the Heavens and the Earth, he also put plants and animals on the earth, even before he created man. Therefore, the chicken came first, laid the eggs, and the eggs hatched into chicks, which grew up and became more hens and roosters. And hens have been laying eggs ever since. The ones that didn't make it to hen-hood or rooster-hood, ended up on our plates, scrambled, fried or poached. Hope that answers your question.
2007-01-20 20:26:36 · answer #5 · answered by gldjns 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken had to have come first because the egg couldn't have hatched without the chicken to take care of it.
Think about this...man came before baby.....chicken came before egg. It makes the most sense to me.
2007-01-20 20:23:28 · answer #6 · answered by em<3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a waste of a thought and playing smart with stupidness.
Once there are chickens to produce eggs who cares about whats first?
Who cackles when the eggs are laid?
2007-01-20 20:35:31 · answer #7 · answered by mythkiller-zuba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chickens came first. God created all the creatures of the earth and then they multiplied. Then came the egg !!
2007-01-20 20:25:35 · answer #8 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you follow theology and creation then then the chicken. I don't. By natural selection and evolution there had to be one chicken that first evolved into what we would consider a chicken by our standards. That mutation would be genetic and so the chicken would be born (or hatch) as a chicken, from a chicken egg.
So my answer is egg.
2007-01-20 20:24:37 · answer #9 · answered by Bastard64 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Chicken Of COURSE!
(Genesis 1:20-to-23) And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a living soul; = = and let birds = = fly over the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.
(Gen 1:21) And God created great sea-animals, and every living soul that creeps with which the waters swarmed after their kind; and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
(Gen 1:22) And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
(Gen 1:23) And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Thanks, RR
2007-01-20 20:27:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋