who came first the chicken or the egg?

Question

i want to see what people really think in R&S

i really need something to laugh at so ... help me out

i know the question sounds stupid but if you really think hard about it, it's not a stupid question at all

this is one of the things in life i enjoy, watch people of a religion and people with the lack of fight over this[just one thing in life]

think about what came before the first real chicken it could of been close to a chicken but was it the chicken we know today.it layed the first chicken egg we know today. so if you wanna know the egg is what i think

Answer 1

Since the reptiles and fish we all came from reproduced by egg, I'd say that an egg laying creature evolved into the chicken. That would essentially put the egg first.

Answer 2

Reptiles laid eggs before some evolved into birds, so the egg was first. The species "chicken" has become what it is over millions of years of evolution, so it would be hard to identify the first real chicken - but however you would define it, the first chicken individual would be a slightly mutated fetus inside an egg laid by a slightly different "chicken ancestor".

Did you expect to get any long, serious answers like this one? I tried to come with something funny, but I had nothing, sorry.

Answer 3

The egg came first.

How do I know? There have only been a finite number of chickens that have existed on this earth -- therefore there is a first chicken. I don't know what differences it had from its parents -- but there was something about that chicken that exhibited chickenness that its parents did not have. Since that chicken came from an Egg -- the Egg came first.

Answer 4

No one knows for sure, but I'm guessing the egg, I doubt there was a chicken running around the garden of Eden. Meaning that the chicken came from a mutation of another bird that was running around the garden of Eden and it stuck around.

Which came first Watermelon or Seedless Watermelon? Which came first a wolf or a poodle?

I don't believe in evolution. I believe in natural selection. I believe that God is the creator of everything. There was no big bang. There was Adam and Eve, and they did not evolve from apes.

Answer 5

I think it kind of depends on how you label things.

Edit: Is the first egg that had a thing that we would call a chicken a chicken egg, or would it be a chicken-like egg with the first chicken in it?

Edit: Where would you draw the line anyway?

Answer 6

The chicken came first, cause God created the chicken, so the chicken could lay the egg

Answer 7

Only if you are ignorant would you fight over something so irrelevant to life today. But to answer your question... in order for an egg to hatch, there must be a mother hen sitting on the egg incubating it, so there is no possible way that the egg could've came before the chicken.

Answer 8

The first of the species of domesticated fowl, gallus domesticus, would have been seen as an egg. A "nonchicken" (of the genus/species gallus gallus, specifically) would have laid the first egg to be considered gallus domesticus, thus, a true chicken. Of course, paradoxically speaking, the egg is the chicken and the chicken is the egg... thus, neither came first. Evolution is fun.

Answer 9

I assume you're referring to the egg that gives birth to that particular chicken?

It would make most sense, in evolutionary terms, that the egg (in general) came first (most likely from fish). The chicken then evolved from other bird forms. But in order for that particular chicken to have been born, the egg (that gives birth to that particular chicken) must have come first.

Answer 10

look the amniotic egg was here millions of years before birds so it is easy to answer your quest the egg was here first reptiles used it to escape the problem of coming back to the water to lay eggs like the amphibians all you have to do is pick up any good biology book and you could prove the egg was here long before chickens existed