what came first the chicken or the egg? lol i reli wanna know its annoyin...x
2007-02-14 02:27:29 · 27 answers · asked by lou lou 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2007-02-14 02:35:59 · answer #1 · answered by Oliver T 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The chicken is a product of evolution, at one time there were no chickens. There were however eggs, not chicken eggs, but eggs nevertheless. The first chicken hatched from an egg laid by a creature that was not quite a chicken, but was almost there. On this basis, the egg came first.
2007-02-14 19:08:13 · answer #2 · answered by funnelweb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chickens, and all birds, evolved from dinosaurs. So in the strictest sense the answer is the egg. If you take it farther back to the first egg layers, it would depend on whether live birth or eggs came first. I don't know the answer to that. If live birth came first then "the chicken" came first. If egg laying came first, then it was the egg.
If you look at the original question under the lens of evolution then it becomes irrelevant anyway.
2007-02-14 10:43:27 · answer #3 · answered by Lew 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the chicken and egg were in bed together, the chicken lights up a cigarette and turns to the egg and says "Well we have an answer now don't we?!"
2007-02-15 22:54:42 · answer #4 · answered by roguengine 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came along long before the chicken.
2007-02-14 10:34:51 · answer #5 · answered by Deannaizme 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's difficult cause I can see a chicken popping out of somewhere (god, or evolution or whatever you want to believe) but hell, I can't see an egg warming itself for however long it is before hatching and then looking after itself through childhood.
Not plausible.
I say, chicken.
;)
2007-02-14 14:49:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to be the egg, since the chicken was still trying to cross the road!
2007-02-14 14:22:14 · answer #7 · answered by Duffer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess the egg came first and that the creature that laid it was, genetically speaking, not quite a chicken. The new offspring being the first 'chicken'.
2007-02-14 11:50:57 · answer #8 · answered by andy muso 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is all a matter of evolution...
who would laid an egg is the egg was first? my answer would be, that animals evolve very slowly, and so the chicken ancestors would lay eggs (since we alread know eggs existed way before chickens, even before dinosaurs) and each generation would look more alike a chicken... (again, very slowly), until voila! it's a chicken...
so, the egg was first! :)
2007-02-14 10:39:10 · answer #9 · answered by kiomx 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The egg had to come first,for the chicken to come out of it, But then who laid the egg ?.
2007-02-14 10:56:10 · answer #10 · answered by BRIAN F 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the egg. the chicken would have been a mutant of an earlier creature which was not unlike the chicken.
2007-02-16 10:04:34 · answer #11 · answered by claire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋