2007-06-10 10:51:39 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
the egg, because of evolution the chicken hasnt always been a chicken that we'd know nowadays, so the first EVER domestic chicken had to come from an egg! therefore, the egg came first!
2007-06-10 10:56:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you believe in evolution, which this question most often seems to have an under"laying" connotation of... The egg, very simply because in evolutionary terms, the very first chicken hatched would have to have come from something that was almost a chicken but not quite. Perhaps off by a gene.
Of course then again, if you think about it, actually this question could more be taken as a debate opener for whether you believe in evolution (the egg) or creation (the chicken).
2007-06-10 18:15:14 · answer #2 · answered by Kamyk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several answers to this. Your answer depends on your faith. To creationists the answer is a young, adult chicken. To anyone else the answer would be the egg. In evolution, something very much like a chicken, but not quite a chicken, laid a chicken egg.
2007-06-10 18:03:54 · answer #3 · answered by gwydiontinker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first. Eggs were a method of offspring incubation long before chickens emerged from evolution.
2007-06-10 17:57:51 · answer #4 · answered by Dan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. The chicken that came out was some kind of mutation of some wierd chicken-reptile thingy.
2007-06-10 18:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by Terry The Terrible 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg, because from an evolutionary standpoint the egg was around long before the chicken.
2007-06-10 18:07:54 · answer #6 · answered by the slightly amusing answers of 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg, cos another species that the chicken evolved from layed an egg that was mutated and instead of looking like itself it looked like a chicken. because this species was more adapted it was more likely to survive and therefore more likely to breed producing the species of the chicken.
but if you are on about when it was 1st classified a chicken it would be the chicken before the egg. because man would have had to see a chicken to name it one
2007-06-10 17:58:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither because they evolve together.
Some question require answers that are not YES or NO or BLACK or WHITE. The Universe is very complicated and the answer to this question is not a simple one. The idea that the things are created in a instance is based on archaic religious believes. You can apply the same logic to a Black Hole, a Star or an Galaxy. The elements that created this objects came from previous objects.
2007-06-10 18:21:29 · answer #8 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken
2007-06-10 17:56:12 · answer #9 · answered by Kat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The egg.
The chicken is a mutated offspring of some other fowl. That other fowl laid an egg, and much to its surprise, a chicken emerged.
2007-06-10 17:56:06 · answer #10 · answered by Tom 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋