...and why?
2007-07-05 06:38:56 · 16 answers · asked by . 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Scientists believe the egg arrived first due to the fact that the egg is made up of a single cell organism which abundant evidence shows were the first life forms on earth. Through evolution those single celled organisms found ways to change their chemistry to be able to form egg cells, which unlike other single celled organisms, egg cells can chemically unite its entire protein and DNA structure chemically with other single celled organisms such as sperm cells (remember the chicken egg has to be fertilized by a roosters sperm in the chickens ovaries for the chicken to lay an egg) with their haploids to be able to form eukaryotes. (multi-celled organisms like us humans or chickens) When the haploids of the single sex cells unite they develop into chicken eggs which contain a cocktail of amino acids and genetic material that react chemically through heat activation caused by the mother hen sitting on the egg. This causes the amino acids to synthesize to proteins which eventually results in the synthesis of genetic and life forming material. As a result, it creates a baby chick. In conclusion when you watch a chicken lay an egg you are witnessing the uniting of single celled organisms forming multi-celled organisms. Therefore the egg is the only logical answer since scientists know that single celled organisms were the first to inhabit the earth. So the egg cell of the chicken and other organisms must have formed through the evolution of primitive single celled organisms into multi-celled organisms through their ability to unite as sex cells. There you go, the answer everyone has been waiting for!
2007-07-05 06:54:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This question really belongs in the philosophy forum.
It is the typical layman's 'cause & effect' question.
Causality questions have been asked by philosophers for the past 6,000 years of human civilization. For example, consider the Whorforian Hypotheis: "Does thought determine language or does language determine thought?"
Most causality questions are anwered 'a priori', meaning to deduce the answer from logical conditions. Scientifically speaking, the first form of life on earth was cells, and since an egg is a cell, then the egg came first.
2007-07-05 14:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken. The egg cannot exist without the chicken. The egg cannot be incubated without the chicken. Therfore, however it occurred, the chicken came first.
2007-07-05 13:45:04 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette and grinning. The egg looks very disappointed and says "Well I guess we answered that old question"
2007-07-05 13:44:55 · answer #4 · answered by morrigin 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Aristotle said that "potentiality preceeds actuality". An egg is a potential chicken; a chicken is an actual chicken. Therefore, the egg had to come first.
2007-07-05 13:50:03 · answer #5 · answered by Coach 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Duing a Roman banquet egg was traditionally served as a first course. Poultry would be served as part of the main course.
Therefore the egg comes first.
2007-07-05 17:13:11 · answer #6 · answered by Hobilar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken did. Because if the egg came first, what hatched the egg? It makes sense doesn't it?
2007-07-05 13:51:41 · answer #7 · answered by Dixie Ryan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither, it was the 'proto-chicken'....something half way between today's modern chicken and egg....
2007-07-05 16:11:13 · answer #8 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the chicken. you need a chicken to produce an egg...dyuh!
2007-07-05 13:56:11 · answer #9 · answered by P.Dub 2 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The chicken--Because the Bible says so--Genesis
2007-07-05 13:48:30 · answer #10 · answered by j c 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋