I really dont understand what came first the egg or the hen?

Answer 1

I guess that depends...

If you believe in Christianity or another "God as Creator" style of religion, He created the animals.

If you beleve in evolution, perhaps some creature that wasn't quite a hen laid an egg and when it hatched, out came a chick.

Or we all live in the matrix and there's no such thing as chickens.

Answer 2

The egg came first. It had to. Once a bird has hatched it does not change. When a hen mates with a cockerel, the egg carries genes from both of them and the hatchling is different from both. Any mutations appear in the egg and the bird that hatches carries those mutations. Over time, the small changes resulted in the changes of dinosaurs to birds and birds to other birds eventually ending with a bird that is recognisably a hen. Its parents are not much different but over time they are. The egg came before any specific type of bird. Going back far enough, the parent was not a bird but a dinosaur.

Answer 3

I think there is no right or wrong answer. Yes, the hen laid the egg but the hen was born from an egg.

Do you know the song that goes "oh the mother and child reunion is only a moment away"? It was written when the writer was going to eat a chicken & egg sandwich and he realised it was a mother and child reunion.

I think it was Simon and Garfunkel.

But I think there is no real answer to the question 'which comes first the chicken or the egg.

Answer 4

The hen seeing as an egg couldn't have just appeared... the question is more of an evolution verse creationalism type of question... evolution would believe that hens evolved into egg layers and creationilists would believe other wise... personally I believe in evolution so I'm definitely for the chicken was first theory.

Answer 5

Well, think that one through. You can't have an egg with out a hen, yet, you can't have a hen with out an egg. So, the real question is, where did the first hen come from?? If you really think about it, it's a never ending cycle. egg, hen, egg, hen,egg, hen, egg, hen,egg, hen, egg, hen,egg, hen, egg, hen,egg, hen, egg, hen,egg, hen, egg, hen,egg, hen, egg, hen,egg, hen, egg, hen, So, did the first hen come from molecules in the ocean, or did God create the first hen? Hmm....

Answer 6

Religiously as well as scientificly the chiken came first. The first species of animals were bacteria that gradually became fish, then touched land for the first time and from there 1 species of fish became an anphibian, from there a rodent and a mammal until the chiken came along. then the chiken layed its first egg. Why did the chicken lay an egg? Well it is said that the characteristics are very familiar of those of the t rex which also layed eggs.

Answer 7

Eggs. For another simple reason to add to the other scientific answers. Populations evolve, individuals do not. So, it was not some linear chicken and egg, but a whole population of animals evolving this way.

Answer 8

Old joke.... most of you must have heard this?

A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking a bit pissed off. The egg mutters, to no-one in particular, "Well, I guess we answered THAT question!"

Answer 9

I really dont understand why people find this question so hard.

Hens (chickens) have been around for thousands of years originating in Asia?

Eggs, however, have been used for reproduction by ancient fish, reptiles, birds (prior to chickens) and mammals (monotremes, eg. platypus and echidna) for millions of years.

So clearly eggs were first.

Its easy to understand and answer this question in terms of evolution. The underlying question is how did life begin.

Answer 10

i'm pretty sure it was the hen...the egg would not have hatched without the hen sitting on it and keeping it warm