what came first, the chicken or the egg ??

Question

this question has always puzzled me, can anyone pls help?

Answer 1

the rooster probably came first

Answer 2

Hey this is going to get some people wired...... First was the egg!!!

Although the question has existed for centuries and the answer is supossedly a "cul de sac", excuse my french, or a street with no way out , if you think carefully it does have a logic answer .

Instead of lauching an absurd dialetic brdlbrdl about what was first an egg where a chicken comes out, but of course the egg has to be laid by the chicken...etc

I find more usefull in working my definitions and hence asking what came first chickens (meaning birds or evolved winged reptiles) or eggs (meaning eggs).

According to evolution, (not my fault) prior to the existence of any birds on earth there were already amphibius, and reptiles, which evolved into other animals, some of the latter amongst them into the birds.

Yet reptiles also lay eggs so I guess that there was a point that some animal, still considered a reptile by the scientific definition, laid an egg that hatched and from it came a very similar animal, (its descendent) but with primeval wings) which scientists would define and consider a bird.

Hence the argument depends on language and science. That is why at the begginning it was the word (some say the verb) and not at the begginning was the egg. In general it depends of our thesis, position, that we define this or that a way, as we like, as long as we define it.

Also there are scientific fads and all that crapp, but at least I would argue that there were eggs on earth many years, maybe centuries, even milenia, before any bird and hence any chicken existed. Ergo.... first where the eggs and then the chickens. It is a lot of crappola but dont tell me it doesn´t sound much better than the regular chicken-egg, super-crappola.

Answer 3

The egg. In evolutionary theory genetic information can change from one generation to the next. These changes (which can range from virtually imperceptible to dramatic) then affect the offspring's chances of survival in the environment that it is born into.

When the very-nearly-chicken laid it's egg, that egg contained all the genetic information needed to create the chicken.

However this is very over-simplistic. Try not to think of things as chicken or not-chicken, but be open minded to the varying degrees of existence in between.

Even creationists accept that the modern chicken's make-up has been drastically affected by man's selective breeding so do you still require such a distinct difference between French-Bantam and Not-Quite-French-Bantam breeds.

Oh and remember, the chicken hasn't stopped. It's just nearly the next type of chicken.

Answer 4

Depends on your philosophical background. If you believe in pure unguided evolution, it must be the egg, which had to descend from a (to quote Cecil Adams) non-chickenoid form of life.

If you believe in God's part in his creation, it might be either. It hinges on whether the chicken is a basic "kind" or not. Creationism allows for species to be both specially created by God (if they are a basic "kind"), or to have evolved via micro-evolution (if they are not). So, if a chicken is a basic "kind", then the chicken must have come first to lay the egg. If not, then it was the egg.

Unfortunately, we don't know this, so we can't ultimately say which came first. Actually, I think that best embodies the spirit of the saying anyway. The whole point of the saying is that we can't know which came first.

Answer 5

It has to be the chicken. The egg (as well as the chicken) are current results of many years of trial and error. If the egg was too soft, it might decay and no offspring would survive. Too hard, and the offspring couldn't get out, and therefore perish. Now it is almost perfect. This is not an opposing viewpoint to creationism, we may just differ at our starting points.

Answer 6

Truth be told, it was the egg. But that made GOD lonely. Let me explain. Sit down, tigerlily.

Once upon a time in the universe, GOD made himself a feast. It was for Him and His wife, Wisdom. He is an EXCELLENT chef, boy, I tell you. Truly He is. He puts those Hell's Kitchen chefs TO SHAME. For sooth! Okay, so he made two of everything, for instance: two lampchops, two t-bone steaks, two sides of cheese eggs, two servings of Welch's Grape and much much more, but that was just breakfast. You get the jist.

Well, the smell was absolutly HEAVENLY. To DIE for. Husband and wife had a lovely candlelit brunch later that day. They had petit-fours (2 of course), deviled eggs, (yes, eggs were served at every meal, my friend. every meal) , croissants with hummus and rainbow sherbet. The meal was simply divine.

Right before dinner, GOD took a nap and had a dream. He dreamt of creatures roaming in jungles, sleeping on savannahs, swinging from vines, climbing trees, running through forests, swimming in streams and they all were singing, Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase. The King of Kings awakened a changed MAN. He decided to stop eating eggs and beef and turkeys and filet mignons and peacocks and hot dogs and instead let them grow and BE. Let them grow and BE animals.

The next month, there was a change all around. Baby animals were beginning to grow. Eggs hatched into chicks. Chicks grew into chickens. And oh boy, the chicken was cute, but the fried chicken was killer. So, there you go. The true story of the chicken and the egg. That's my story and its sticking to my sides.

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Answer 7

it is obvious that in the course of evolution chicken would have come first and as a mode of adaptation it started laying egg to give birth to young ones.

Answer 8

This question already appeared in the JOKES section. Look at the many answers there - they are informative and entertaining.

Answer 9

chicken

Answer 10

"Feelings/desire and thoughts/visualization" precede creation (manifestation); But without the Rooster no fertilization ... no egg.