which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Question

I'm doing a debate, a 5 minute speech, and chose this as my topic. Which side should I choose to explain which came first? And if you could, leave a lot of info so I can talk about it for 5 minutes. :)

Answer 1

The chicken. Which came first....the embryo or the man? Same argument. I would believe ... man. In the beginning God created...

Answer 2

The question isn't specific enough. First off, are we talking about a chicken egg? If we're not talking about specifically chicken eggs, then eggs definitely came first, because nearly every animal hatches from an egg of some sort.

However, if we're talking about a chicken egg, then the answer of the question is based on your definition of "Chicken Egg."

A chicken egg is either:
a) An egg laid by a chicken
b) An egg that contains a chicken embryo
c) An egg laid by a chicken that contains a chicken embryo

If your definition is "a," an egg laid by a chicken, then the answer to the question would be that a chicken came first. The only way there could be a chicken egg, according to your definition, is if a chicken laid it. So, the chicken came first.

If your definition is "b," an egg that contains a chicken embryo, then the answer to the question would be that the egg came first. An ancestory of the chicken, that through evolution, was very chicken-like, but not fully a chicken, laid the egg that contained an embryo of what is the first chicken.

If your definition is "c," an egg that was laid by a chicken and contains a chicken embryo, then the answer is a chicken. A very close ancestory of the chicken laid an egg that contained a chicken embryo (but wasn't laid by a chicken). Out came the first chicken, who then laid an egg that would be considered the first chicken egg.

The most common definition of chicken egg would be "b." so the egg really did come first. The chicken must have been born from an egg. A chicken cannot just appear.

Answer 3

This question appears regularly in the question file, so let's take a shot at it.

In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

Answer 4

God created the chicken(s). The chickens created eggs. Therefore, the chicken came first. Pretty simple, but it's going to be hard to talk about for 5 minutes.

Answer 5

First, God created life, meaning, all living things on Earth. Next, God said, "Be fruitful and multiply," which gave all living things the ability to reproduce, each kind after it's own kind. Every living thing has its own method of pro-creating. For poultry, the egg is the method. This, of course, is based on the assumption that the learner believes in God.

Answer 6

The Bible says that God created the animals so obviously the chicken came first.

Answer 7

even if u don't believe in a particular religion, i would still say the chicken came first

Answer 8

Chicken! LOL.