I know the real answer what do think came first.
2007-02-10 14:40:40 · 10 answers · asked by shahalala 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Ask them I imagine it was the one breathing the heaviest.
2007-02-10 14:45:26 · answer #1 · answered by Deirdre O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't I just answer this?
A team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.
Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.
Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.
Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.
The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.
"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."
The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.
Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.
He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.
"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.
"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."
Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.
He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."
The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD.
2007-02-10 22:48:50 · answer #2 · answered by Walking Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My theory is that first there where to almost-chickens that had an egg and the egg hatched to be a chicken. So the egg must have come first.
2007-02-13 10:05:52 · answer #3 · answered by Logic King 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i will definitely say it's the chicken... because if the egg came first.. that would mean that there is only one chicken and no female (or male) partner... then how is it suppose to lay another egg... so, it has to be that a PAIR of chicken were created to continue their family line...
2007-02-10 23:29:30 · answer #4 · answered by I need a vacation! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Webster's Unabridged Dictionary ,Chicken comes first then all the rest of the C's followed by the D's and the part of the E's then Egg comes along and finely arrives
2007-02-10 22:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by joegossum 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The chicken>then the chicken had eggs
2007-02-10 22:45:06 · answer #6 · answered by lauren s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THe chicken because where would the egg come from or the egg because where would the chicken come from
2007-02-10 23:19:15 · answer #7 · answered by amulya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken because God created animals not babies and/or eggs.
No offense to Walking Man or anybody else. But the scientist that say the egg came first are idiots. The theory of evolution is bunk.
2007-02-10 22:50:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
For the thousand time this question has been ask go to 'Google' and type in 'Chicken or egg' and click on search
2007-02-10 23:30:42 · answer #9 · answered by Buck 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why dont you ask the chickens? or the scientists?? or maybe God?..
2007-02-10 23:14:02 · answer #10 · answered by nUmB 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋