no one has ever been able 2 answer this question?

Question

which came first the chicken or the egg?

someone asked me and i said the chicken, but that chicken had 2 come from an egg but then where did that egg come from?............

Answer 1

It does sound puzzling at first, but how much does one have to think until one realizes that both chicken and egg must necessarily have come from something that is neither a chicken nor an egg? This answer was knowable centuries before biology came about, yet people assumed there was some unsolvable mystery behind the issue.

The modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million year old resident of the Jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken.

DNA mutations occur in the early stages of life of organisms. As you know, when new cells divide, the DNA within the nucleus separates nucleotides and duplicates, then two new helix are formed. The amino acids responsible for mitosis are prone to make mistakes to the genetic architecture-- a beautiful system of flaws that cause evolution and diversity in species. It's like the reason why children will look like their parents, but not approximately, they are a combination of both parent's ancestor genetic history and the result of new combinations in the DNA helix.


So according to fossil research, before the chicken was the "proto-chicken" and this bird was almost chicken, but not quite. Well this proto-chicken laid an egg with a mutation, and the interior change of the DNA was enough that the exterior of the new bird could be thought of as a new species.

The first chicken had to hatch from a chicken egg to qualify to be a chicken, so the egg came first."

Answer 2

This is the same thing my friend asked me on Friday, I told her the egg but them my teacher said the chicken. Anyways I think the egg came first but what i do not now is from where it came.

Answer 3

The egg has been around for hundreds of millions of years. The chicken for a few tens of millions.

The egg wins by a long shot.

Answer 4

The cell made eggs, and the cell came from all of the chemicals from the big bang, and the cell turned into the chicken, and the chicken made the egg, so it would have to be the chicken...I tihnk :)

Answer 5

I have been asked my opinion on this for many years. My thought has always been that the chicken was first. This is because I believe that Noah put the chicken on his ark, and I do not believe that God would lay an egg down on the ground for it to hatch without a mother to warm it (well it couldn't hatch without warming, would it?) and watch over it.

Many educated people have disagreed with my theory. However, I believe that my theory makes good sense, and maybe that is all that matters at the end of the day.

Answer 6

well, unless your going to ignore more than 200 years of scientific research, the egg came first as eggs have existed for millions of years, and chickens for merely thousands (possibly hundreds) of years.

Answer 7

I believe the chicken came first. When God spoke the world into existance, that animals were first created in their adult form. I base this on the precident where we can read this was the case with humans (Adam and Eve). However, the Bible doesn't flat out specify in the case of other animals, so I could be wrong.

Answer 8

God created Adam and Eve grown up already. They are not created by being a baby first. And when Adam and Eve reproduce, the child started first being a fetus inside Eve. The same as the chicken. Chicken first.

Answer 9

the egg because of a genetic variation causing evolution

Answer 10

God first created animals and then chicken gave eggs..
Simple ha?