what came first, the chicken or the egg ? (personal opinion)?

Question

what do YOU think came first ?

Answer 1

A chegg

Answer 2

t's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.

"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."

The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD.

Answer 3

your thought comes first. No! You read it. So somebody's thought came first. Actually it's the earth came first then the creatures. Why did the earth come? Because the creatures have to come. Why did they have to come? Because they lost their homeland to invaders. The invaders were fleeing from the army of a stronger country. The pitiest losers came here a small numbers - they brought here a chicken because they counld not keep the eggs because they worried if they all became rosters. They brought a chicken with them - only one. All chicken could lay eggs without a roster. They brought chicken flees as well.

Answer 4

A Looooong Time Ago (yes, even before there were television remote controls), there lived a small but hardy little bird called a Gvornk.

It had kinda off-white feathers, wings (though it couldn't fly very well), two feet, kinda short and chunky and with a rather unique mouth. It had a beak, but the beak pointed INWARD, kinda how you'd look if you tried to suck in a small funnel.

Now, the Gvornk ate grains and seeds, which was, to say the least, difficult with this inward-pointing beak. But, they were, as I said, a hardy lot and they made due with what they had for generation upon generation.

One day, a lady Gvornk got... um... laid... and she realized she was gonna have a baby... probably several of them. But this lady, was no lady, as they say. Now we don't know the details, but during her pregnancy she probably ate lots of fatty foods, smoked and drank and carroused. THEN, she laid her eggs, dutifully nesting them... until The Worst happened.

She had a deformed child. Actually, she had a whole brood of them. And the deformity manifested itself in the chicks' beaks, for the babies beaks pointed OUTWARDS.

Now, all the other Gvornk kids constantly ridiculed the "outies." They'd choose them last for their scratch-in-the-dirt games and such. It was Not easy being an "outie."

But then a funny thing happened. The "new" kids grew, bigger and stronger and faster than there "innie" friends. This is probably because their "outie" beak allowed them to eat their seeds and grains better and faster than the others.

Over time, one by one, the "innies" began to disappear, starved, because the "outies" ate the food fastest, and too weak to create more "innies."

Meanwhile, the "outies" thrived, growing, eating, making more and more "outies." The CHICKs became the parENts, and the CHICK-ENs took there current place in the world.

And what came first? A nest-full of mutant EGGS.

Answer 5

definitely the egg!
in order for a chicken to exist, it has to come from somewhere...and I know what the 'chicken came first' people will say: "Well the egg had to come from somewhere too!!" yes, you're right, that's true!
BUT- the egg didn't have to come from a chicken! it could have come from two seperate species that mated to create a chicken egg. It is the only explanation that makes any sense!
(To me at least! haha)

Answer 6

I think that it all started with a few microorganisms that formed in the ocean, given the ideal conditions for life (including the proximity of the sun). They were self reproducing and they grew and grew. As conditions in nature killed the majority of these organisms, only the fittest and most adaptable survived, and from there they evolved more and more into a chicken that is capable of producing an egg. So in my mind neither came first, but they share a common ancestor.

Answer 7

i believe something very similar to a chicken lay an egg and then the egg created a mutated version of the previous animal which is now what is called a chicken.

Basically: EGG first

Answer 8

once upon a time, a chicken and an egg were fighting to go first,,
the chicken was so strong that it gav the egg a punch, and from heaven it came down to earth, but he had a parachute with itself, so it was coming down to earth slowly, meanwhile a chicken had a skate board, so it came down faster, the egg was worrying, and suddenly it had an idea,,
it left the parachute, fell down on the ckicken and died,,
the chicken too fell on its skate board which fell on the ground, th chicken died,,

we were about to conclude that there is no winner,
but then suddenly,,what do we see there,,
a leg comes out of the egg and steps on the earth, and thus,,
the winner is

"a Chick"

Answer 9

Had to be the egg, via evolution there was a chicked like creature. That creature layed some eggs, some of them had mutations those mutated eggs produced the chicken as we know it today.

Answer 10

The egg! Clearly there were eggs before chickens evolved.

Answer 11

The Rooster.


The Chicken was never satisfied.


And the egg arrived some weeks later....
... from the chicken, not the rooster...
...... otherwise we'd end up with a cockatrice.