2007-07-29 11:31:20 · 40 answers · asked by jamie o 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
UMMMMM the chicken?
2007-07-29 11:33:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rote answer:
The egg (assuming we're talking about an egg with an unborn chicken in it) came first, because whatever laid it was not QUITE a chicken, being one slight step back on the evolutionary chain. That last mutation made the thing in that egg a chicken.
But, if you think about it, right before that egg hatched, it was both a chicken and an egg. If you discount the possibility of chickens having souls and leave out religion and abortion arguments, then the moment the DNA of papa not-quite-chicken and mama not-quite-chicken combined, the egg and the (genetic foundation of the) chicken both existed at the same time.
So, if you like, neither the chicken nor the egg came first. The egg is the vehicle by which the chicken and it's DNA was brought into the world-- without the egg, there would be no chicken; but without that particular combination of DNA called "chicken," there would have been no chicken egg.
2007-07-29 11:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by KJohnson 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bird that wasn't quite a chicken lay the egg from which the first chicken emerged, so the egg came before the chicken.
2007-07-29 11:53:59 · answer #3 · answered by Captain Atom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg because probably some weird partly evolved creature layed a weird egg that turned into a weird chicken. It probably took millions of years for the chicken to be a real chicken.
2007-07-29 11:34:32 · answer #4 · answered by cookiemonster508 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg.
Because the dinosaurs were already laying eggs before there were chickens.
2007-07-29 12:02:12 · answer #5 · answered by medea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tiny little cell mass (a little like a chicken ) with a tiny little rubbery egg inside.
2007-07-29 11:37:00 · answer #6 · answered by Bemo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, Chickens and egg shouldn't even try to perform sexual acts, let alone scream the place down.
2007-07-29 11:35:13 · answer #7 · answered by jimbo_thedude 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good grief, not this one again!! I think the chicken was first. God shoved it ontae the planet(probably in the ark) when it hud it's wicked way wi' the lusty rooster, a wee egg appeared!!! Can ye prove otherwise??
2007-07-29 13:36:02 · answer #8 · answered by Angela M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken, it had to reproduce first to make the egg...?
2007-07-29 11:41:27 · answer #9 · answered by IslandOfApples 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the big bang happened, the chicken went one way & the egg went the other.......
2007-07-29 11:34:24 · answer #10 · answered by Fitz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken. A mutated animal became a chicken, and the chicken was better adaptated for the environment, so therefore it reproduced and survived easier.. EVOLUTION
2007-07-29 11:35:28 · answer #11 · answered by eli b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋