What came first, the chicken or the egg??

Question

Heard the saying a million times, but what is the answer?? xxxxxxxxxxx

Answer 1

well when i walked past the loacal farm the other day i saw the chicken smoking and the egg heavy breathing so.............................does that answer your question

Answer 2

*****Assuming a chicken egg

In this case, the egg is assumed to be a chicken's egg. This is an obvious assumption since the question itself implies a link between the two.

If one assumes the egg to be a chicken egg then one must define what a chicken egg is:

* If: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken

Then a bypass is allowed: An animal that was not a chicken laid the chicken egg which contained the first chicken. In this case the egg came first.

* If: A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays

Then a bypass is allowed: A chicken (that hatched from a non-chicken egg) laid an egg (a chicken egg). In this case the chicken came first.

* If: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken and was laid by a chicken

Then there may be an error of definition. If the definition of "chicken" used does not refer to "chicken eggs," then the chicken must come first, because without chickens there cannot be any chicken eggs.

******Theological answers

According to creationists who believe in Biblical inerrancy, birds were created "on the fifth day" as adolescents or adults. Since there is no reference to the creation of eggs, they presumably were then made by chickens afterwards by the normal process. Therefore, the chicken came first.

Alternatively, for those who accept the intelligent design form of creationism, Eugene Volokh has noted that "In my experience, most creationists are also pro-life -- in which case, the egg is a chicken."

Another theory is the chicken came first because the chicken come's before egg in the dictionary.

Answer 3

The answer is simply, the egg.

"...a pre-chicken creature that was at least one generation away from our present-day chicken, laid an egg that contained an embryo with DNA consistent with the “new” aviary creature known as chicken. Therefore, the egg that contained the newly evolved chicken preceded its hatching. In other words, prior to the arrival of the first zygotic mix of male and female pre-chicken DNA that combined or mutated to form today’s chicken, there were only non-chickens. The DNA mutations occurred at the cellular level in the zygote developing inside the egg. Therefore, the egg clearly preceded the chicken."

Answer 4

An egg is laid by an animal (not a chicken), and out of that egg comes a slightly mutated animal (a chicken); only a chicken can lay a chicken egg, but a chicken could come from an ancestor's (pre chicken) egg, therefore the chicken came first.
I have never used the word 'chicken' so often.

Answer 5

What an original and insightful Question!

For the millionth time: the egg came first. There were egg-laying creatures around for many millions of years before chickens came along.

Answer 6

Not an original question but if ya curiouse then why not ask hey.

ANSWER! The egg came first, because thousands of years ago two birds mated they both resembled the modern day chicken to a degree but were not chickens they were a different breed, what i mean to say is that both breeds of bird were differen to each other and the consequence of their mating was a hybrid bird which is what we know as a modern chicken.

Answer 7

I would have to say the hen came first then the egg. Chickens do not lay eggs.

Answer 8

chicken, the egg came from it. That chicken was bought about by a magic wand and the hand of paul daniels.

Answer 9

egg came first,then the egg hatched,then came the chicken.

Answer 10

reptiles were laying eggs millions of years before chickens , (or any bird for that matter) evolved. so it is most deffinatly the egg

Answer 11

The chicken. It will have evolved from prehistoric sludge like all creatures and then laid an egg.