Has anyone ever found an answer to the which came first, the chicken or the egg question?

Question

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Answer 1

no. it's called an infinite regress, meaning that you go back indefinately. thus it's fallacy.

Answer 2

The egg that was laid that became the original chicken wouldn't have been laid by a chicken but by something very much like a chicken. Just a slight evolutionary step off.

It's sort of like how there are all kinds of sci-fi shows that show people getting new abilities or sudden changes in features. While it never happens that fast this is pretty much what it's like.

In short the egg :)
A human has a baby that has slightly different evolutionary characteristics, such as using another 1% of the brain, or is actually born without an appendix which the human body no longer needs. This baby can still be considered human, but may be the first in evolutionary changes in what will someday no longer be considered a human being should this change continue happening in other human beings who are being born.

Answer 3

The egg came first because mutations occur in the egg, not in the chicken. The first egg would have come from the chicken's immediate predecessor, which would have looked a lot like a chicken but which would have been a different species.

Answer 4

It was never meant to be answered. It was meant to confuse. A rational case can be made for either answer, and the point of using this as confusion is to "prove" that reason can be used to prove anything. But everything question is metaphysical; and metaphysics are contextual; so either answer is correct--provided the epistemology is sound--and this question is identical to the "tree falling in the forest" question; except with that, the point is to prove that one believes the only existence is the one we immediately experience, or if in fact empirical reality exists outside the mind.
It does exist outside the mind, and the chicken came from the egg of 2 different birds, which begs the questions where did they come from? Subjectivists don't want you to answer that: it did not come from your immediate and personal experience, so "how can you know?"

Answer 5

Well... for me came a many dinosaurs that layed egs which evolved, and started having feathers, so the egg defanately came firsrt.

No.. I have not got the slightest clue... It's just an opinion to be rejected as an answer, and pretty focused on Darwin!

Answer 6

It's hard to say. And for all you Christians out there(I'm one too just so you know) who's to say that when God created the world that chickens were automatically there? There are a lot of animals that have come over time. So the answer to your question is I don't have a clue.

Answer 7

Nope still the same. I just checked and the chicken won. It crossed the street a while back The egg is still standing there where it was before.

Answer 8

Whether you believe in the atheist version of Darwinism or in creationism, all animals began as fully grown/developed, then produced young (in the case of a chicken, an egg).

Answer 9

I was wondering the samething. i remember asking my 6th grade science teacher and he said that the chicken came first because over time with evolution the chicken started to lay eggs.

Answer 10

The question came before all. Then came the road to cross.

Answer 11

in my opinion the egg is an unborn chicken, so the chickens exist first to produce eggs right?