Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

Question

Really, think about it. Where is your proof? I have what I believe is mine. The chicken was first. Can anyone else answer this question and support it? Like can you prove the egg was first? And yes, I am in the correct section...R&S., and yes I AM serious. Essay answers not neccessary. Short and to the point is fine. However all serious answers will be taken into account.

I also realize this question has been asked about 700 times on here, here or there.

Answer 1

the chiken beause God created animals, not eggs to hatch, or even chiks or other youn animals, he made them full grown-i beleive-u ask Him later

Answer 2

The egg came first. Two things which were not chickens, but nearly so, had sex and produced an organism which either contained mutated genes from one or the other or both of the parents or the genes in the gamite were mutated in early development and what developed in the egg and hatched was a chicken whose genes were strong enough that when it had sex with other birds, produced more chickens. That is one of the ways evolution works.

Answer 3

The egg, of course. And this, from How Stuff Works, says it better than I could:

In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

Answer 4

Elmo came first!

I've been caught in this question about the chicken and egg since forever.

OK, I'll be serious, look Adam and Eve didn't come from a woman's womb, so the chicken came first, God created all creatures and then they could reproduce as they actually do.

Answer 5

The egg came first. There are egg bearing creatures that existed long before the chicken.

I see you did not support your answer with anything more than your opinion.

Answer 6

Chicken, because only a chicken can lay a chicken egg, a proto-chicken can't lay a chicken egg, if two things mate and lay an egg containing a chicken, it's a proto-chicken1+proto-chicken2 hybrid-thing-egg. OR. Thing mutates into chicken and lays an egg.

Answer 7

My thinking is this -- the egg.
Something that lacked one more evolutionary step to be what we would call a chicken (E.G. it retained its egg-tooth into adulthood) laid an egg that hatched into a chick that lost it's egg-tooth in childhood and would then be a fully evolved chicken.

Answer 8

The development of the egg was around long before chickens...

Fish have had eggs before there was any life on land, and many creatures before them..

How can someone not know this..??

Answer 9

Well eggs are more of a morning meal and chicken is better for supper time.

I'm gonna have to go with egg.

Answer 10

The egg came first.

Answer 11

Evolution shows that the egg came first.