My friend and I have had this argument forever, I say chicken, and he says egg, what do you all think?
2007-03-02 08:44:24 · 35 answers · asked by Stephen 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
obviously the egg since its a one celled organism
2007-03-02 08:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
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.
2007-03-05 05:16:07 · answer #2 · answered by rickpetralia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-03-02 08:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by Walking Man 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is only one place from which a chicken's egg comes, and that is a Hen.
Have a great day!
2007-03-04 23:57:19 · answer #4 · answered by jfmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends if you are a creationist or evolutionist.
If you are a creationist, the chicken came first, it was created by God and placed in the Garden of Eden, where it laid eggs and propagated.
If you are an evolutionist, the egg came first it was a laid by something other than a chicken and a mutation caused the egg to hatch as a chicken even though it was laid by an Archeaopteryx or someother proto-bird.
2007-03-02 08:53:45 · answer #5 · answered by safari_lounge 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The chicken came first.
That's where the egg came from!
2007-03-02 08:48:20 · answer #6 · answered by Jules 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it was the egg because the chicken had to evolve from another species so in the slow process of evolution the off spring is the one changing, with each generation the animal changes IN THE EGG therefore it is the egg that comes first.
2007-03-02 08:57:01 · answer #7 · answered by greenluxi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dinosaurs were laying eggs way before chickens came around
2007-03-02 09:01:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The other day my wife and I went to Denny's restaurant and my wife ordered fried chicken and I ordered a cheese omelet.
The chicken that came first.
2007-03-02 09:02:04 · answer #9 · answered by Bernard Wiggam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends on what you believe about the origin of earth. I say the Chicken because I believe in God and believe that God created the animals like God created humans...in that weren't born we were created; no egg to hatch.
2007-03-02 08:48:07 · answer #10 · answered by Jade D. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say it had to be the chicken...the chicken may have been mutated and then the mutated chicken laid the egg
lol I do not know what I am getting at here...
2007-03-02 08:48:02 · answer #11 · answered by mysweetest666 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋