2007-09-21 13:59:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Easier than you think, and it's independent of whether or not one is a creationist.
If one holds to evolution, then the egg came first, because egg-laying animals evolved before chickens specifically evolved.
If one holds to creationism, the egg STILL came first, because fish, which lay eggs, were created before chickens, and the fish would have already had their ova/eggs within them when created.
I win!
2007-09-21 14:50:28 · answer #1 · answered by Hoosier Daddy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eggs came along a long time before there were chickens. Lizards were laying them for millions of years before there were ever any birds. Slowly these lizards evolved feathers. Like it or not the fossil record does exist for this idea. Identical skeletons have been found, some with feathers, some without.
At some point an egg hatched and what came out looked sufficiently different from what had been coming out before that someone named it chicken.
So this answer is not as difficult to understand as philosophers have lead us to believe.
Love and blessings Don
2007-09-21 21:15:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicken. The chicken must lay the egg to have another chicken. I know that is confusing, but I think it is chicken, since eggs would probably get eaten.
2007-09-21 21:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by Corinda Hawkins 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. Without the chicken how would the egg hatch?
2007-09-21 21:19:04 · answer #4 · answered by whuz007 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First this probably is not the answer you expected but here it is. God made all that is living and all were fully grown. So therefore the chicken came first and followed what God said about going out and populating the earth.
2007-09-22 01:20:35 · answer #5 · answered by debbie f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you believe in Darwinism it is logically the egg, as the chicken evolved from a different species before it became a chicken, egg laying (exterior fertilization) is one of the oldest forms of reproduction.
if you believe in creationism, you have a choice of either, God could easily have created an egg and let it incubate itself, or God could have created a perfect fully matured chicken
2007-09-21 21:12:42 · answer #6 · answered by Adam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken.
2007-09-21 21:20:31 · answer #7 · answered by rollmanjmg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow this question's been asked a lot.
egg came first because the like 99.9% chicken but 0.1% dinosaur laid the first 100% chicken. it really depends on what you think about creation. or not-creation, you pick.
2007-09-21 21:24:25 · answer #8 · answered by Marie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. God made the animals in the middle of their life, not as babies.
2007-09-21 21:33:09 · answer #9 · answered by Patrick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken came first. ofcourse.
2007-09-21 21:06:57 · answer #10 · answered by TAYYY 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋