The chicken or the egg?
2007-05-16 19:55:27 · 33 answers · asked by woptie 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
here we go again...
2007-05-16 19:57:59 · answer #1 · answered by dreamer4ever 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, and I am not kidding you, scientists already solved this one. The egg came first and this is becuase live animals do not mutate their own DNA which means an animal cannot change their DNA to become a chicken but DNA does mutate in sexual reproduction. Therefore, the first chicken came from an egg that an ancestor of the chicken lay down.
The gentleman that came after me and said it is not true should know two things: One I am quoting an article I read on CNN, and Two, animals that have almost identical DNA can breed with one another so there is no need for two chicken. For example: a horse and a donkey, a daschund and a siberian husky, different breed of house cats. A daschund doesn't have the same DNA as germand shepherd obviously!!!! Yet they can mate. Different ancestors of man bred with each other. That is why we have a variety of races: black, white, hispanic, etc. If only chicken were to mate with each other their would not be different breed of chicken. Think about it!!!
2007-05-16 20:02:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2007-05-16 20:20:12 · answer #3 · answered by sxanthop 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg. The Chicken was selectively bred by humans from the Red Jungle Fowl. At whatever point you pick to say "This is a chicken, not a Red Jungle Fowl", that first chicken hatched from a Red Jungle Fowl egg that existed before the first chicken.
That's basically how evolution works, too.
2007-05-16 19:58:48 · answer #4 · answered by Boris Badenov 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well actually none of the above
As sexual reproduction has come into being recently in earth history first came those first strands of RNA and DNA. for over 3 billion years cloning was the preferred mode of reproduction. It is still practiced by a vast number of species on the planet. So no Chicken no EGG.
2007-05-16 20:21:01 · answer #5 · answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken, and then it layed an egg. Doesn't the egg have to be sat on to keep it warm? I don't think the egg would hatch if there wasn't a chicken there to keep it warm...
2007-05-16 20:14:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the time of day. I ate chicken for supper (dinner) I usually eat eggs for breakfast, so, EGG!
2007-05-16 20:02:03 · answer #7 · answered by grey smily 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The chicken has to come first, since in the beginning God created only animals first!
After God had created animals, he commanded them saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth.", and animals in response began giving birth to their young ~ chicken's response to this was no different. Suffice to say, for its young to be produced, eggs are inevitable.
So, a full grown chicken was created first and then produced it's first young through eggs!
2007-05-16 21:16:47 · answer #8 · answered by RealArsenalFan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The flaw in the scientific explanation quoted above it there would have to be two duplicate chickens from one zygote for their to be a breeding pair so the chicken line could continue. Also these two (from the same zygote) would have to be male and female. Two creatures from one zygote maybe a male and a female from the same original zygote well that stretches the imagination to the breaking point.
2007-05-16 20:06:19 · answer #9 · answered by Bullfrog21 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg.
2007-05-16 19:58:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The egg.
Dinosaurs laid eggs before they evolved into chickens.
2007-05-16 20:00:25 · answer #11 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋