And can you back your answer with sources? :D
2007-08-25 13:58:43 · 22 answers · asked by ۩MoonLit Muslima۩ 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The question is quit puzzling at first, but the answer was neither. It wasn't the chicken or the egg, but something in between...a sort of proto-chicken. It developed into what we now call the chicken. We can safely assume that an egg containing the first chicken was laid by a er, proto-chicken.
2007-08-25 14:08:35 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As species change over time, in the process of evolution, the first modern chicken was the offspring of the last direct ancestor of domestic chickens to not share that classification (likely the Red Junglefowl). Therefore, a non-chicken did, in fact, lay the first egg.
The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Since the chicken emerges from an egg, and the egg is laid by a chicken, it is ambiguous which originally gave rise to the other. To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe began.Cultural references to the chicken and egg intend to point out the futility of identifying the first case of circular cause and consequence.
2007-08-25 14:07:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The egg. According to "natural selection" that is.
Gene mutation may only occure while the egg develops to a chick.. So at some point, u could say that through gene mutation, "something" layed an egg that developed to a chicken because of a mutation..
2007-08-25 15:38:33 · answer #3 · answered by GuardianCy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. It's a scientific fact that eggs need chickens to hatch, so the egg couldn't have been first because then there wouldn't be any chickens!
2007-08-25 14:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh i so got this one. The egg came first because a mammal's egg is the largest cell on earth (i believe??) anywho, an egg is a cell. and the first form of life on earth was a cell. a multicellular organism that eventually grew in size and number of cells. so the egg came first (because it's multicellular) and it gave way to the chicken. which eventual reproduced to create another egg, and so on. i'm so glad you asked this, because i was thinking about it for a moment, and this whole idea came to me. haha now i have backup for my answer!
2007-08-25 14:15:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken if you are a Christian (Genisis: 2 chickens, male/female placed on Earth to make an egg).
Egg if you are a Darwinist (egg evolving from another species).
2007-08-25 15:06:30 · answer #6 · answered by Wait a Minute 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The egg. Dinosaur eggs came wayyyyyyyyy before any chickens came.
2007-08-25 14:06:12 · answer #7 · answered by steph_horan1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken came first.
2007-08-25 14:49:39 · answer #8 · answered by Kidd! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My thought is it was an egg that came first.
An egg is a single cell and life started as a single cell and then evolved into multiple celled organisms. Eventually chickens evolved from that one celled organism.
That's my theory.
TMD
2007-08-25 14:29:11 · answer #9 · answered by The Mad Doctor ™ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd definitely go with the chicken. if you believe in the whole god creating the earth theory (which i'm still on the fence about) can you really picture god wanting to wait to hatch an egg?
2007-08-25 14:13:13 · answer #10 · answered by rinnasaurusrex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋