What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Question

What is the real answer, because it's such a confusing question.

Answer 1

Your answer to this question will depend upon whether or not you are a creationist.

Evolution tells us that the first chicken was hatched from and egg laid by a proto-chicken. Accordingly the egg came first.

Those who reject evolution on religious grounds would say the chicken came first because god made the first chicken, which in turn laid the first egg.

Answer 2

Here is a logical approach to this question, from both the evolution view and the creationist view.

Creationist: God created chickens. Therefore the chicken came first.

Evolution: This question implies that the egg in question is a chicken egg, otherwise it would be easy to say that reptiles laid eggs long before chickens. So although the first chicken did come from an egg, the creature that laid that egg was not a chicken, therefore the egg was not a chicken egg, therefore it does not count in context of this question. Therefore the chicken still comes first.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

I don't know why there's so much mystery surrounding this very straightforward question and its equally straightforward and incontestably correct answer. A creature that was not a chicken formed an egg. Gene mutation before fertilization lead to the DNA which would facilitate the development of the first chicken embryo inside. It's very simple. The egg came first.

Most relevant YEC assertions are not scientific and therefore not worth considering.

The egg came first.

Answer 4

The answer depends on the parameter of space and time.

If you want to know which came first in the entire plane of existance, then the chicken came first, because the "egg" is just a word meaning the zygote produced by another animal. There is no way "egg" can be here first.

If you only want to know which came first on Earth, both possiblities are possible. The chicken came first because it was evolved from a kind of bird dinosaur. Or the egg came first because some alien colony ship dropped them here and want to collect them after 1 billion years when the farm is functional (Earth).

Answer 5

its confusing but the chicken came first cause there wouldn't be an egg without a chicken

Answer 6

The egg. It had to have came from a pre-evolved chicken that laid the first chicken egg.

Answer 7

While the question does seem puzzling at first, the answer is quit simple, it was neither. The predecessor to the chicken was a 'proto-chicken' with a fancy Latin name i can't think of right now, but we're talking eons ago....

Answer 8

The chicken because the chicken is a distant relative of the dinosaur.

Answer 9

an egg with a genetic mutation from another chicken-like bird.

Answer 10

obvioulsy the egg becuase of mutations in genes form the early forms of chickens and thaey mated and thee were mutations in the genes and it changed the early chcken into the chicken now im in 9th grade and in know that it is pretty obvious!