what is the actual argument behind this question?! i dont really understand what the question is.
2007-05-01 15:36:05 · 12 answers · asked by Abaddon 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
So that's the whole philisophical discussion? it's not any deeper than that? i thought it was representing something more.
2007-05-01 15:43:41 · update #1
The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia. It has come to mean the different schools of thought on the origin of the world.
Creationists claim that since birds were created on the 5th day, they came before the egg. and the intelligent design (also creationists) camp states that the egg came first, as that particular way of thinking is also pro-life, so egg then chicken.
Evolutionists will say the egg came first, as the chicken was hatched from a much more ancient form of avian life.
Either way, its a cyclical cause and effect question. Its a speculation...if the egg came first, then where did the one who layed the egg come from? The chicken and egg dilemma is often appealed to in pointing out the futility of identifying the original cause in any issue of cyclical cause-and-effect.
2007-05-01 15:48:14 · answer #1 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi Abaddon. The real 'point' of this question is almost always missed. This is a TRICK QUESTION. It offers only two possible answers, but ... both answers are wrong.
The question ASSUMES that either the chicken or the egg came first. The correct answer is NEITHER came first. The chicken and the egg evolved TOGETHER.
This type of question is often used by journalists and politicians. This technique forces the answerer to choose from two false answers.
Learn to recognize this 'trickery'. When a question is given with the 'answers' included in the question (rather than as an open ended question), it is probably a similar trick question.
Best wishes and good luck.
2007-05-01 17:09:47 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is an old philosophical question with a modern answer : The egg comes first.
Why? Evolution. Is hard to explain because evolution work via ramification and not as a linear transformation of the species.
When the first sea animals enter the land territory the eggs required a protection cover to support the heat and inclement of the land. This was the start of the chicken egg.
2007-05-01 16:04:54 · answer #3 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just as God created Adam and not an egg, I assume when he had Adam name the animals he named the chicken- a chicken, not an egg!
Therefore, I firmly believe the chicken was here first-- end of discussion.
2007-05-01 16:24:06 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the philosophers wanted to argue which is first. Because if the egg was first, who laid the egg? But if the chicken was first, who created the chicken?
I would have to answer the chicken. In the Creation, the chicken came first and it layed the egg.
2007-05-01 15:43:11 · answer #5 · answered by Rhabdite 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, chickens lay eggs, but chickens also hatch from eggs. So the question - which was first? Was it the chicken or the egg that started this whole process?
2007-05-01 15:41:48 · answer #6 · answered by Ben 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which came first? The chicken or the egg? You have to have a chicken to have an egg but you have to have an egg to have a chicken.
Personally, I am a Christian who believes in evolution.
2007-05-01 15:39:52 · answer #7 · answered by The Phat Whale 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some links below that answer about the origin of it. I believe the hen existed before the egg did. Otherwise who laid the egg?
2007-05-01 15:44:12 · answer #8 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's basically the argument of creationism versus evolution. If that's not deep enough for you I don't know what is. It's the unanswerable question.
2007-05-01 16:10:34 · answer #9 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is the ROOSTER, then the HEN and then the EGG.
2007-05-01 16:35:42 · answer #10 · answered by COMET 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋