2007-04-10 08:41:51 · 42 answers · asked by socmum16 ♪ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What came first?
2007-04-10 08:42:01 · update #1
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.
So....the chicken came first.
2007-04-10 08:44:51 · answer #1 · answered by Mrs. J 2 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Chicken
2007-04-10 08:46:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-04-10 08:44:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anyone who believes in the creation theory will go for the chicken because God would have created it and put it on the Earth. Anyone who believes in the evolution theory will go for the egg because the chicken would have been a product of evolution; a duck for instance may have laid an egg and due to natural selection and mutation a chicken may have emerged. I think that both are possible so I believe in both.
2007-04-10 08:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In America that would be Colonel Sanders and then the many Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, came next, and the chickens came through the back doors. HA!
2007-04-10 10:54:58 · answer #5 · answered by Old Truth Traveler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. Eggs were around long before birds evolved. The first bird close enough to a modern chicken to be called a chicken hatched from an egg laid by a bird that just missed the cut.
2007-04-10 08:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The egg predates chickens.
2007-04-10 08:55:24 · answer #7 · answered by St. Tom Cruise 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg... dinosaurs were laying eggs for millions of years before any creature even resembling a chicken evolved into being.
*GASP* He said Evolve!
2007-04-10 09:07:46 · answer #8 · answered by Maverick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I've seen this question many times. People aren't stupid. Of course the Chicken came first.
2007-04-10 08:45:04 · answer #9 · answered by NR 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Had to be the chicken. An egg has to be kept warm in order to hatch.
2007-04-10 08:44:45 · answer #10 · answered by Misty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken.
2007-04-10 08:44:17 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋