Exactly what came first: The chicken or the chicken egg?

Question

Please explain your answer.

First off, I need some more support for your answers than a few thousand year-old wacked- up history book(The Bible or what ever you bookyou worship).

Second, when I say "chicken egg" i mean a egg actually identical to any modern chicken egg.

Answer 1

The chicken of course (because the egg comes from the chicken)

Answer 2

I say it was the egg. The "first chicken" (the first member of the species we call chicken, having whatever characteristics distinguish a chicken from its ancestor species) was likely to be the result of recombination of the genes of two ancestral near-chickens, or some kind of mutant (this depends on how we define the difference between a chicken and a chicken-ancestor) that made it a "chicken." It hatched from an egg that must have been a chicken egg, that was laid by a non-chicken. It mated with a non-chicken and laid another chicken egg. Something like that - but if the chicken came first, then you would have to have a chicken hatching from a non-chicken egg somewhere, which is categorically not possible. blah blah blah! It's purely a question of defining terms a certain way, not a real puzzle.

Answer 3

A. Enough with the Creationist B.S.

B. To answer the question, it is a difficult process of biological identification and even semantics. If a pre-chicken laid an egg that became the first chicken, one would be inclined to say the chicken came first. However, since a chicken hatched from that egg, would it technically be a chicken egg? I would think that an egg is defined by what comes from it, thereby the first true chicken would have to have come from the first chicken egg.

Answer 4

My answer would be the chicken first. Because if egg comes first it would not hatch,since no chickens are gonna lay it. Also, you need a chicken to get an egg.

Answer 5

The chicken came first. The chicken egg can't lay an egg.

Answer 6

Chicken egg. Even though humans arent hatched, babies start as the female egg before they are fertilized with a sperm. The chicken embreyo is contained inside the egg.

but seriously.. who knows? we might as well say which came first.. dinosaurs or dinosaur eggs?

Answer 7

The Bible says Adam named all the animals so I believe the chicken came 1st.

Answer 8

You know that's an age old QUESTION? ITS the chicken. G-d created the animals. HE never mentioned the egg.

Answer 9

That would depend on whether you are a creationist or an evolutionist, as a creationist I believe the chicken was first. God said let there be chicken, and there they were, and if cooked right they are GOOD!!!