Is it ...........?

Question

.......the chicken that comes first or the egg?

Please explain your logic.

I'll present my point view when I choose the best answer.

Answer 1

i "Believe" it's the chicken.

just think of Allah, he created Adam and Eve, then there were "children"; sons and daughters !!!!!!!

also remember prophet "Noah", Allah ordered him to take from each sex a pair ; ie. male and female !!

so, i "believe" that the "chicken" comes first :-)

Answer 2

We now know many important things.

Chickens are produced by chickens.
Chickens are not produced by eggs.
Chickens are a necessary condition for the production of eggs.
Fertilized eggs are a sufficient condition for the production of chickens.
Chickens may produce either chickens or unfertilized eggs.
The time of the creation of the chicken is the exact moment (point on a 3D curve) that a chicken was created.
The time of the creation of the egg was the exact moment a chicken created an egg.
To solve the paradox of the chicken v. egg, one simply needs to define a moment in time at which either chickens or eggs exist, but not both. The entity existing at this point in time is a singularity, and the answer to the question.
Since we have seen it is possible for the chicken to exist without the egg, but impossible for the egg to exist without the chicken, our work is done. The chicken came first.

Note that we do not have to ask where a chicken came from to accept the logical conclusion that chickens came first - the mere fact that chickens, at some point in time, can exist without eggs (and did) is proof enough that chickens came first, regardless of how they got there. Keep in mind I am not talking about the temporary absence of all chickens (say all chickens died of a plauge but left millions of unhatched eggs) or the temporary absence of all eggs (say we had a really hungry fox on our hands), although both these cases bear out my conclusion anyway. In the first case, the eggs are really not the origin; the origin is the recently deceased chickens. In fact, the eggs are again acting as containers and hold real live chickens. The chicken is a constant, so we really don't have the existence of eggs without chickens. Eggs must hold a chicken by definition; if they do not, they are merely an empty shell and violate the primary assumption that a chicken comes from an egg.

In the second case, we have no eggs and all chickens - this is the trivial case of chickens existing without eggs.

Answer 3

If the chicken came first, where did the chicken come from we can suppose that chickens come from eggs therefore an egg must presuppose the chicken, we know of many animals capable of laying eggs and with the aid of evolution we can hazard a guess that there was a chicken like animal that gradually developed into what we now would call a chicken. So a chicken like animal (though not a chicken itself) laid an egg from which came a bird that we would class as a chicken.

The egg came first

Answer 4

Ah, but do you define the egg by its progenitor or contents?
If the egg is named for the creature that laid it (prior to the growth of the actual foetus inside the shell), then technically the chicken had to come first. An ancestor of the chicken, for arguments sake Fowl X, laid an egg, in which grew, and out of hatched, a chicken.
The egg could be classed as a "Fowl X egg", not chicken.
So, chicken first, then chicken eggs.

Answer 5

Well I believe it was the Chicken, because the egg needs the warmth of a mother Chicken to incubate it and make it hatch. A cold egg would surely die! So......definately the chicken!

Answer 6

neither. something has to come before... something like god which is like BAM. here is the chicken or the first egg .. bc the egg cant come before the chicken.. and the chicken has to come from an egg.. so.. one has to be created before the other but which?? and that is where god comes in.

Answer 7

I think the egg came first because everything begins from an egg or a seed.

Answer 8

Egg, since the evolutionary change would take place as an adaption of a species, as opposed to mutation of an existing animal. In-vitro adaptation would make more sense than mutation of an already living entity. So...egg came first...

Answer 9

The best answer will be the one who agrees with you? LoL

...the word "chicken" comes first in your question.

Answer 10

i think its the egg n then the chicken

Answer 11

a shark gave birth to a baby shark and it got on land somehow and survived, thousands of years later it evolved into a chicken and started produceing eggs =)