I've always wanted to know whether the chicken or the egg comes first! Can you tell me?
2007-03-17 15:26:33 · 22 answers · asked by music_lover 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Gen 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
From these Scriptures God created the chicken first.
2007-03-17 15:41:42 · answer #1 · answered by runner1 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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.
2007-03-17 23:32:47 · answer #2 · answered by mroof! 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Animals evolve as a result of DNA mutation. Whatever species preceeded the chicken had a 'mutant' baby that was what we know as a chicken. That means the parent of the first chicken was NOT A CHICKEN. It laid an egg, and the mutation resulted in that egg hatching out a chicken.
2007-03-18 01:43:46 · answer #3 · answered by Kelley J 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The chicken of course, the egg would need the mother to sit on it to keep the egg warm so the baby can be formed right.
2007-03-17 22:31:08 · answer #4 · answered by Wolfmanscott 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The chicken of course. God created all animals, so there would need to be a chicken to lay the egg.
2007-03-18 02:32:40 · answer #5 · answered by loves2shop 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The first true taxonomic chicken was hatched from the egg of an animal that was extremely close to, but not taxonomically the same as, a chicken.
2007-03-18 19:24:42 · answer #6 · answered by Chris J 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eh, that's tough, it depends on your beliefs. If you are a Christian, or someone who believes God made everything than the chicken would come first because god just made it. If you believe Darwin than the chicken was created from a one celled organism some millions of years ago.......but no one will ever REALLY know.
2007-03-17 22:32:08 · answer #7 · answered by PANIC!! 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eggs are laid by chickens, so the chicken comes first.
2007-03-17 22:35:29 · answer #8 · answered by angela_angie2nd 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God created the creature first. Therefore the chicken came first- then came the egg. bettyk
2007-03-17 22:32:17 · answer #9 · answered by elisayn 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken, God created animals not eggs.
2007-03-17 22:29:44 · answer #10 · answered by whirlwind_123 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋