What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Question

My daughter posed this question to me. I wanted to get an idea of what others think.

Answer 1

A chicken can lay an egg. Without a chicken however, an egg can not hatch, when exposed to the elements. I think a roster has to walk on the egg to fertilize it too, and the mother hen has to sit on it to keep it warm.

Answer 2

The question is supposed to be some kind of conundrum because well, if the chicken came first, how did it get there? It had to of hatched from an egg. Then how did the egg get there? It had to have been laid from a chicken. But you could say that eggs came first, not necessarily chicken eggs but eggs laid from another animal that existed before the chicken. And when the chicken first evolved it had to have came from an egg, so i would say the egg came first.

Answer 3

From a biblical standpoint, it has to be the chicken. God created all living things.

From an evolutionary standpoint, it has to be the egg. Because, the animal that laid the egg passed it's evolving genes on to the evolved bird that was the "new" animal, the chicken. Or in other words, the (We will call it the cochi bird), the cochi bird with evolved genes, laid the egg that contained the morphed high bred bird, the chicken.

Two different takes on the subject, I hope this helps you and the daughter.

Answer 4

This questions opens my mind to freaky thoughts...
The egg came first, I don't care what any scientist may have said on this.
Now, the question is, where did we ALL come from? The egg is what starts things, so what happened? Did some big Mother Nature spew out a whole bunch of eggs onto this planet? (Worse than my neighbour who has five different coloured children) or is like the movie Titan A.E. and some space Noah's Ark brought a whole lotta species' eggs to this planet? (But that only brings us back to the original question.)
Egg.

Answer 5

The power which came from nature to create an egg or chicken.

Answer 6

The egg. The egg has been used for giving birth for a few hundred million years. The chicken has only been around for a few tens of millions of years.

Answer 7

God created the chicken and the chicken created the egg, therefore the chicken came first.

Answer 8

The egg which contains a mutation from the original fowls mutation which leads to the egg and the first developing chicken which will contain and perpetuate the new chromosomal pattern.

Answer 9

I would say neither. Why? RNA and DNA came first or was created first and evolved into organisms and animals like chickens, frogs, turtles, lizards, sea plankton, and so on ans so forth. Life forms evolved and then developed eggs and other means to procreate and reproduce species with.

Answer 10

Okay this is my theory,
at some point two animals had sexual intercourse and created the chicken, then the chicken had the egg and so on...
its a pretty good theory in my opinion.