What came first, the egg or the chiken?

Question

pls. don't tell that coz adam ans eve were in adult form and chikens were! I think that one dinosaur had an egg and here the evolution took part and the a chiken got aut from the egg. Is my theory having sense? pls tell me!!!

Answer 1

Neither, it was the 'proto-chickeh'.... an animal that was neither fully a chicken or fully an egg, but was the progenitor of both...

Answer 2

According to evolution; The Egg.

This is proved best by beating the "Chicken comes first arguement". This arguement is "You need a chicken to lay the egg"
However, according to evolution, the first chicken came about because of a genetic mutation that came about when two not-quite chickens mated. Therefore what created the first chicken egg was NOT a chicken. The egg was then hatched, then the chicken. therefore the egg came first.

According to creationism; the Chicken

The divine creator shaped the chicken when it created all of the birds. It then gave it the equipment to reproduce on the earth. In this way, the chicken came first as a fully formed chicken. Then an egg was hatched.


I am a evolutionist, so i believe that the Egg came first.

Answer 3

Evolution is always the answer to these sorts of questions. Take the "eye" - over millions of years it evolved from light sensitive skin that reacted to shadows. Similarly, egg-laying creatures evolved from other lifeforms that didn't lay eggs. Bacteria were the first life forms and they reproduce by dividing into two. To put that another way, bacteria reproduction occurs through a process of separation. Egg laying is just an evolved, sophisticated form of separation - the egg separates from the chicken! As the evolution of all reproductive processes can be traced back to bacteria reproduction, the egg-chicken question in in fact a non-question.

Answer 4

Eggs came along a long time before there were chickens. Lizards were laying them for millions of years before there were ever any birds. Slowly these lizards evolved feathers. Like it or not the fossil record does exist for this idea. Identical skeletons have been found, some with feathers, some without.

At some point an egg hatched and what came out looked sufficiently different from what had been coming out before that someone named it chicken.

So this answer is not as difficult to understand as philosophers have lead us to believe.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

Most people say the egg came first, because not only in evolutionary terms the egg could be hatched by something not quite a chicken, but also in chronological terms, first you have an egg which hatches into a chicken (Of course you need a chicken to create the egg but that's beside the point).

Answer 6

If evolution occurred, then the chicken would likely have evolved from a species of a genus of egg laying animals, thus the egg would have come first.





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Answer 7

according to the bible 'god created animals' so he did create the chicken and the chicken reproduced its kind. evolution says in a few words that the species evolve, the living creature passes to the next generation some differences, still nothing to do with the egg.

Answer 8

Well, I usually first have eggs for breakfast and the chicken usually comes around dinner time. Most of the time fried but I dabble in a little bar-b-qued every once in a while.

Answer 9

This age-old question really has a simple answer. Attempts to answer it, however, and attempts to get around implications of the simple answer are often quite convoluted.

According to the Creator of chickens, and the author of the Record of their origins, chickens came first. It was on the Fifth Day of Creation Week that He created "every winged fowl after [their] kind" (Genesis 1:21) complete with the DNA to reproduce that kind. Then He "blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply" (v.22) using that DNA. For the chickens this meant lay chicken eggs. Problem solved.

Chickens are amazingly complex creatures, with their hollow bones, intricate feathers, four-chambered heart, continuous air intake, high metabolism, complex brain, good hearing, superb color vision, etc. Modern domestic chickens aren't very good flyers, having been bred to stay home, but neither were the recently wild forefathers of chickens from which they were bred. Everything about a chicken suggests careful design.

Even a chicken's egg is well designed. The embryo nestles safely inside, surrounded and cushioned by amniotic fluid and nourished by the yolk. Metabolic wastes are insulated from the rest, while oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged across the hard but porous shell.

A healthy female chicken produces just such a system nearly once a day, and can even preserve male sperm inside her body to continue fertilizing eggs for several days after mating. The creationist can clearly see the Creator's hand in each feature, phase, and function of both chicken and egg.
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The evolutionist has a different story to tell, however. To them, chickens evolved from other kinds of birds, although which ones remains unclear. It wasn't flightless birds which gave rise to chickens, because they are thought to have descended from birds which could fly but lost that ability through mutation. Actually, the origin of all types of birds which live today are shrouded in mystery leading bird expert, Alan Feduccia, to proclaim, "The origin of birds is still up in the air."

It's fashionable today to claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs, although again, there is little agreement on which dinosaur lineage was ancestral to birds. The claim persists in spite of the fact that birds and dinosaurs differ markedly. Legs must become wings and scales must become feathers. Dinosaurs had solid bones, yet bird bones are hollow. Reptilian dinosaurs were likely cold blooded while birds are warm blooded with an extremely high metabolism. Dinosaurs had lungs similar to mammals, while the bird's breathing scheme is totally different. At least dinosaur eggs were similar to birds eggs internally. Externally, they had a soft, leathery shell quite different from bird's eggs.

All of these changes are thought to have been accomplished by acquiring new genetic information through random mutation. Did the mutations occur in the adult progenitor of chickens or in its eggs?

Answer 10

chicken chicken chicken!
thanks the chicken came,
I love to eat fried chicken!

the chicken came first before the eggs,
how could there be eggs without the chickens to lay eggs?
if eggs came first, who would take good care of chicks?

religion: chicken first
biology: eggs to become chickens