who came first, the chicken or the egg.
2007-08-11 04:45:37 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
probably a chicken someplace does!
2007-08-11 04:50:08 · answer #1 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, being as how chickens are decendants of dinosaurs, I would venture to say that the egg was there long before there were any chickens. So that leaves the question, then which came first, the dinosaur or the egg? I would say the dinosaur in some form or another. Egg-laying evolved from the organism.
2007-08-11 11:50:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seriously, if you believe in evolution, the chicken has evolved from a long line of egg laying species. These animals date back millions of years to reptile like creatures that also laid eggs. The egg has always been present in this long line of evolution, before the chicken, so the egg had to come first.
2007-08-11 11:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by Staveros 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no answer. It's a question that's designed to cause an endless loop of questions. If you ask a scientist, they'll say the egg came first. However, if you ask a devote religious person, they will say that the chicken came first. And if you ask a person who is neither a scientist or a religious person, they will debate this for quite some time.
Therefore, there is no answer.
2007-08-11 11:58:47 · answer #4 · answered by IceStorm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg
I think the chicken and the egg question is a basic evolution vs Creation question.
Mutation and evolution helped form the modern chicken
2007-08-11 11:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by Roderick F 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but I can't be bothered to find the link. Perhaps just for fun, some scientists decided to analyze the process of growth and were able to prove that genetically the egg must have come first.
But it depends how you look at it: If you imagine a kind of caveman/Flintstone-esque "pre chicken" it would not actually be a chicken but it WOULD carry the genetic blueprint for the next generation of birds that were recognizable as chickens.
2007-08-11 11:58:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy.
If you are a creationist, the chicken. God made the chickens just as they are today, on the fourth or fifth day. (I have forgotten which day He made the birds.) The chickens started laying eggs.
If you are an evolutionst, the egg, laid by a chicken-like bird that wasn't quite, 100% a "chicken" but was genetically very close. It hatched and, voila - a new species.
Take your pick.
2007-08-11 11:51:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientifically speaking, the first animals to lay eggs were not chickens. So, the egg.
2007-08-12 00:18:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken of course....
think of it this way...... 'something' had to have laid the egg.
even if you do believe in evolution...... something had to have develop into an egg
and that something is before the egg so even if it wasn't a chicken, it was something of the sort, not an egg....
I believe God created all the animals first... and then they started reproducing.... so I go with chicken no matter what....
2007-08-11 15:28:25 · answer #9 · answered by C L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has to be 'the egg came first'.
Biologically it is simpler to manufacture.If you were to speculate 500yrs in the future it may be possible to make an egg from raw material & some genetic code but it is inconcievable that scientists could manufacture a chicken.It would be many thousands of years before a chicken could be cobbled together.
An egg is just more basic ; it has to come first.
2007-08-11 11:59:49 · answer #10 · answered by paul f 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do.
common sense and being raised on a farm tell me that an egg wont hatch unless its kept at a certain temperature,
so even if an egg was magicly laid. POOF a chicken egg! it would have to have a hen to set it.
peace><>
2007-08-11 17:17:28 · answer #11 · answered by matowakan58 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋