what came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

This is an old yoke.

Answer 2

Well, if you u like the Bible, then u would say that it is the chicken. If u go to this website below and read the whole thing, it talks about who came first. All according to religion and what u think. If your Christian, then u would have to agree with the Bible that the chicken came before the eggs. But if u are part of a different religion like Buddhist, Muslim, or others than u would say it is a chicken. Because a chicken can't be born without an egg and a egg can't be laid without a chicken. So mainly, its up to what u think.

Here's the site I found everything on:
http://www.aeb.org/kidsandfamily/which_came_first.htm

Answer 3

Rivals in one of the world's longest-running arguments.

It is a question that has vexed philosophers since the Greeks. But it seems we may now have the answer to the beguilingly simple question: "Which came first?" It's the egg.

This reassuring conclusion was the work of an expert panel including a philosopher, geneticist and chicken farmer.

"Whether chicken eggs preceded chickens hinges on the nature of chicken eggs," said panel member and philosopher of science David Papineau at King's College London.

"I would argue it's a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it. If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg. By this reasoning, the first chicken did indeed come from a chicken egg, even though that egg didn't come from chickens."

The oldest recorded reference to the childish conundrum goes back to a collection of essays and discussions by the Greek historian Mestrius Plutarchus, born in 46AD. In a section entitled Whether the Hen or the Egg Came First he suggested that the question was already well established: "The problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble."

Plutarchus also hinted at the puzzle's greater significance: "Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world."

Whether the panel solved that debate is not clear, but they were unanimous on the correct chicken/egg pecking order. John Brookfield, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Nottingham said the solution involves piecing together the speciation event in which chickens first evolved.

He imagines two non-chicken parents getting together and giving rise to the first individual of a new species because of a genetic mutation. "The first chicken must have differed from its parents by some genetic change, perhaps a very subtle one, but one which caused this bird to be the first ever to fulfil our criteria for truly being a chicken," said Prof Brookfield.

"Thus the living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken that it would develop into, and thus would itself be a member of the species of chicken," he added.

Will the panel be conducting other chicken-related enquiries, such as why did the chicken cross the road? Prof Brokfield refused to comment.



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Answer 4

the egg came first through spontaneous mutation. Just like all evolution, some other species reproduced either sexually or asexually and created an "outcast" or in some cases, a stronger life form better able to survive in it's environment......Sometime later, after this mutation got shared between beings,a new mutation was eventually popped out of some egg layer's egg laying hole. It was a chicken egg...and so the story goes on.

Answer 5

Ah the age old question...the best way to answer this is to go to a restaurant, order some chicken and a hard boiled egg and see which one arrives first.

Answer 6

The egg.

Answer 7

This is only a trivia question for those who don't believe in creation. Otherwise, the answer is simple. The chicken came first, because God created all the animals.

Answer 8

CHICKEN.. DERRRRR!

see my theory is .. in order for an egg to hatch a hen has to sit on it to make it warm well the egg can't just pop up from the ground and sit on itself.

Answer 9

The chicken, ..how can science say the egg came first, lol random eggs don't just POOF into exsistence?

Answer 10

Is the egg even a bird's egg?

Answer 11

chicken