What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

The chicken..when god made all things possible, he made 2 chickens and the 2 made an egg

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

Without a doubt, it was the egg.

A chicken must have been born from an egg. A chicken can not appear out of thin air. So obviously, the egg came first.

Where did the egg come from? It came from a lizard/bird hybrid that was very late in the proccess of evolution.

Answer 4

Personally, i think it depends on your perspective.
If you are a Christian, or believe the creation theory, or something similar, you'd say the chicken came first, because God created animals. He didn't create sperm before man, seeds before trees, etc.

However, if like me, you're a more logical thinker, you'd say the egg (at least i do). If you think of it from a more Darwinist point of view, then just per chance, the eggs that dinosaurs laid way back when evolved or mutated to form a new specy, that of a chicken. To be honest, this is just a personal theory, and i do not know the necessary facts to back it up, but still, my theory.

Answer 5

Logical answer is actually the egg, because eggs existed before chickens did (Dinosaurs, anyone). And most of the evidence suggests that the chicken evolved from another bird-like animal, hatched from an egg.

However, in terms of syntax the word Chicken occurs before the word egg in your question

Answer 6

An egg is defined not by what laid it, but by what is inside of it.

So, something that had evolved very closely to being a chicken, but was not a chicken, laid an egg in which a mutation occured. That mutation resulted in creating the first chicken.

Therefore, the egg came first!
(Of course, you have to believe in evolution to buy this explanation.)
=o)~

Answer 7

The Chicken.

Answer 8

The good old question!
The egg of curse, because the chicken comes from the egg!

Answer 9

I can't say for sure but I would love to know how the chicken knows the size of an egg cup

Answer 10

Chicken wud ov come from so kinda other animal and turned into da chicken because you would need a chicken to make an egg!