2007-08-11 08:16:36 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
the chicken comes from the egg. the egg comes from a creature, not necessarily a chicken, so it was a mutated animal egg that made the chicken, no if you want to ask what came first the egg or the creature, i would say the genetic slime that made the creature with eggs
2007-08-11 09:10:05 · answer #1 · answered by ceesteris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on your viewpoint on the issue. Thier are 2. Those who believe in a creator, and those who believe in evolution. Those who believe in a creator would say that God created first the chicken, since in the Bible it states that God created each and every animal according to its kind. I assume that God first made the chickens to make the eggs. For those who belive in evolution, it might be a bit tougher. For one thing, they still have yet to answer what came first AT ALL. Was the universe always, or did it have a creator? Working backwards from the evolution point of view, you see that the chicken evolved from the dinosaur, somehow, and so the question than should be, 'What came first, the Dinosaur or the egg?' The problem with that is dinosaurs nor eggs can not simply come out of no where. Their must have been something before. One can argue that a creature slowly evolved to become an egg laying dinosaur, but where did the creature who turned into the dinosaur come from? Is it an evolution of another creature? Where did that one come from? And so on.
2007-08-11 22:14:23 · answer #2 · answered by . 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No rules of logic answer the question. The question is of no consequence anyway.
Since is appears that you can't have a chicken without first having had an egg, and vice versa, then why keep asking a deadbeat question? Perhaps the two appeared at the same time.
2007-08-11 16:28:03 · answer #3 · answered by Theron Q. Ramacharaka Panchadasi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is indeterminate because it depends on how you define what a chicken is. The species that preceded the chicken did not evolve into a chicken in one generation (despite what some creationists think of how evolution works). There was this bird-like creature that most people would agree was not a chicken, and then several tens of thousands of generations later there was something most would agree IS a chicken. In between the two was a very gradual transition involving birds that were part chicken, part chicken-predecessor.
So, I guess the answer to your question would be "either, or both."
2007-08-11 15:29:56 · answer #4 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first. The egg contained the mutant offspring of some creature who was the evolutionary forebare of the chicken. The mutant was the first chicken.
2007-08-12 16:15:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's chicken that came first, why? Because a chicken can defend herself, even limited defense but it has some capability to, on the contrary an egg will not survive the most little danger it may face.
2007-08-11 15:25:27 · answer #6 · answered by Green visitor is back :D 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a vicious circle. The origin of the chicken is the egg, but then again, where did the egg come from since it can only come from a chicken?...
2007-08-11 15:33:33 · answer #7 · answered by Cheshire Riddle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg, because from the egg came the chicken.
2007-08-11 15:26:46 · answer #8 · answered by ema x 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there was a really big bang. and then there were these tiny organisms which eventally became dinosaurs. then there was this other bang which made the dinosaurs have to evolve. so they evolved into chickens. so the answer is that an egg came first. but it wasn't a chicken egg. it was a dinosaur egg. and out of it came a chicken.
2007-08-11 15:25:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You didn't say a "chicken egg," and there are other kinds of eggs (dinosaur eggs, insect eggs), some of which predate chickens. So there ya go.
2007-08-12 00:04:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋