2007-06-01 10:11:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The egg. It was laid by critters long before chickens ever existed.
In a more recent sense, the egg again. It was laid by a chicken progenitor, and the baby inside the egg was the first chicken, created by a fusion of the DNA of two chicken progenitors.
2007-06-01 10:16:59 · answer #1 · answered by Brian L 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Christianity the chicken because God put everything on earth in it's adult state. Example: What came first man or child? But if you have other beliefs the egg, but in the end it takes a chicken to lay the egg, you decide.
2007-06-01 17:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by xxx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg. The first chicken had to be a chicken in the egg, before it hatched.
2007-06-01 17:23:09 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would believe the chicken would come first because the chick in the egg wouldn't survive without the "mother" chicken caring for it. So where did the grown chicken come from? Higher power, probably.
2007-06-01 17:16:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg. Eri16k has it exactly backwards. According to evolutionary theory, the first chicken would have come from, naturally, its own egg, and it would have been a genetic mutation from parental proto-chicken and proto-rooster, close but not quite chicken and rooster genetically.
2007-06-01 18:30:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg came first....reptiles have been laying eggs since the beginning of time....chickens are fairly recent in the grand scheme of things
2007-06-01 17:47:45 · answer #6 · answered by susuze2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg becuase it couldn't survive withut the warmth of the mother chicken.
2007-06-01 17:58:41 · answer #7 · answered by Zaxop 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you believe in evolution the chicken because microorgonisms were first and only needed to split then later evolved to an animal that could reproduce sexually leading to animals that through adaptation became chickens
very simply put
2007-06-01 17:26:50 · answer #8 · answered by eri16k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken, cause in the bible it says, God created all animals, not egg yolks or whatever they are called!!! i hope you believe in god!
2007-06-01 17:15:17 · answer #9 · answered by Stumbles 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What ever was crawling around about 3.8 billion years ago. That's what came first.
2007-06-01 17:26:15 · answer #10 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋