what came first the chicken or the egg??
2007-04-06 15:54:03 · 12 answers · asked by beonlyme11 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Depends on if you support the scientifical theory or the religious theory.
2007-04-06 16:02:43 · answer #1 · answered by ♥CHOCOHOLIC♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As has already been mentioned, it depends whether you support the Creationist argument (ie. the Universe was created out of nothing, ex nihilo) or the Darwinist argument.
In Creationism, an intelligent mind or entity created the first chicken as it was, and so it had no ancestors and therefore did not hatch from an egg. This means the chicken came first.
In Darwinism, species develop gradually over generations by passing on traits that helped them survive. Thus, the first "chicken", as we know them, would have hatched from the egg of its parents (not quite chickens, but their most immediate ancestors) inside which it would still have been a chicken. This means the egg came first.
2007-04-06 23:18:11 · answer #2 · answered by Archangel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither, a single celled organism would have evolved into a chicken which would lay an egg and that egg would be fertilized and then there would be a chick.
And I don't think this question fits in with history, more like philosophy or biology.
2007-04-06 23:40:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A chicken and an egg are laying in bed together. The chicken is smoking a cigarette. The egg quips "that answers that!"
2007-04-06 23:02:53 · answer #4 · answered by It's Kippah, Kippah the dawg 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
egg because there can not be a chicken if he didn't come from a egg , where the egg came from is anybodys guess
2007-04-06 23:02:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. The egg would have been created from ovum and sperm from a different species of bird that was the precursor to the chicken.
2007-04-06 23:06:05 · answer #6 · answered by lokimadhouse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken , because god made one of each animal so it started as a chicken the it layed eggs and the population of chickens increased
2007-04-06 23:13:00 · answer #7 · answered by LaylaTayla 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would have to be the chicken otherwise where would the egg have come from.
2007-04-06 23:00:19 · answer #8 · answered by Alwyn C 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And the follow-up question, what does jesus have to do with the easter bunny and eggs?
2007-04-06 23:49:40 · answer #9 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess this little riddle has been passed down for ages and ages, thus it almost constitutes a 'historical' question...
2007-04-06 23:34:42 · answer #10 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋