2007-04-18 02:21:49 · 28 answers · asked by leo g 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
the rooster duh.
2007-04-18 02:24:52 · answer #1 · answered by DASH 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Egg. If you imagine some arbitrary point in the evolution of chicken-kind at which an organism is defined as being a chicken, that chicken must have very slightly different DNA from it's not-quite chicken parents, so it would be the first true chicken. And it would have hatched from an egg, so the egg came first!
2007-04-18 09:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. Because sexual recombination happens when embryos are created, the first true chicken must have started as an egg. If you think about it on a genetic level, each organism that gives birth after having sex has a child that is genetically different from it. Thus the first chicken egg was layed by the last pre-chicken
2007-04-18 09:25:02 · answer #3 · answered by Soccer Tease 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggs came along a long time before there were chickens. Lizards were laying them for millions of years before there were ever any birds. Slowly these lizards evolved feathers. Like it or not the fossil record does exist for this idea. Identical skeletons have been found, some with feathers, some without.
At some point an egg hatched and what came out looked sufficiently different from what had been coming out before that someone named it chicken.
So this answer is not as difficult to understand as philosophers have lead us to believe.
Love and blessings Don
2007-04-18 09:33:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends upon you and your beliefs. There are two ways to go: Creationism and Scientific. Neither can be either proven or disproven, this is why it rests upon you. What feels right to you?
Creationism: The chicken came first. God created all life. I don't think an egg qualifies as life per-se as an egg needs heat to incubate which would in turn require a mother to keep it warm.
Scientific: Beginning with the primordia ooze to which we evolved from would lead us to the egg first. As all life begins in the ocean, one would assume the warm waters would have acted as an incubator to inducing hatching and further development of offspring. As life moved away from the ocean, the progenator of the species would have developed methods to replace the missing "mother" eg: the ocean. Thus Instinct became a crucial survival mechanism.
The most important aspect of this question is to know yourself. To define the parameters of who you are and what you believe. It's these questions that promote growth and understanding within you. To help define who you are and what you wish to become. Emotions vs. Logic. Science vs. Religion. Good vs. Evil. The eternal balance for one would not exist without the other. Only you can answer what you believe for yourself, only you can decide your reasons. Freedom of choice is both a gift and curse. Enjoy.
2007-04-18 10:22:32 · answer #5 · answered by Maverick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...Hens can lay eggs all day long without any help from the rooster. But if the rooster does happen to come along and fertilize the egg, then the egg will hatch and you have a chicken. The egg isn't going to become a fertile embryo and hatch without him. So....The chicken "came" first.
2007-04-18 09:32:27 · answer #6 · answered by redlucky7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. A chicken can't just materialise from thin air. The egg containing the first chicken came about through evolution
2007-04-18 09:24:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
since the chicken egg comes from a chicken and can not develop without the chicken can only stand to reason the chicken was first. no matter if you look at it from evolution or religiously the chicken would have still been first as embryo can not be formed without the aid of an ovary egg and a sperm cell to fertilize it to have an offspring (chick)
2007-04-18 10:47:08 · answer #8 · answered by Savage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like this answer.
"According to the theory of evolution, the first modern chicken was the offspring of the last direct ancestor of domestic chickens to not share that classification (likely the Red Junglefowl). Therefore, a non-chicken did, in fact, lay the first chicken egg, i.e., the egg came first."
- Wikipedia
2007-04-18 09:25:03 · answer #9 · answered by Jeff Tangowski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg obviously. This is because the chicken evolved from other egg laying birds
2007-04-18 09:46:59 · answer #10 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi it must have been the egg as another bird would have layed the egg and the egg would have genetically mutated from the mother then the chick would have been the first chicken
2007-04-18 13:04:11 · answer #11 · answered by AMANDA B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋