2007-12-15 10:47:35 · 62 answers · asked by kay-g 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The Chegg
2007-12-15 10:49:48 · answer #1 · answered by Louise 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The "which came first" question is restrictive. It implies either one just appeared. Logically, we know an egg can only be made and layed by a hen, so the chicken must have come first.
Now your thinking is restricted again. The first chicken must have come from an egg. Or did it? Was there a "first" chicken?
If you are totally opposed to any notion of evolution, then this question has no logical answer, but evolution can explain it if you don't follow the odd view some people have on evolution.
The chicken as we know it did not just suddenly appear by being created, or as a sudden radically different offshoot from a previous species. It was an ongoing process over millions of years to evolve into the chicken we know today. Each generation had virtually indiscernable differences to the previous one, and at some point was not recognisable as the chicken we know today. Go back far enough and the chicken would not even have been a bird, but would have been a reptile (which still comes from an egg!) and go back beyond that and even the reptiles birds came from evolved from something else.
2007-12-15 10:59:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The egg. As animals don't evolve in their lifetimes, the creature we know call the chicken would have had to come from an egg- even if the animal that laid the egg was completely different.
2007-12-15 23:18:54 · answer #3 · answered by wodvamp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the Chicken is not the only egg laying creature the egg must have evolved first.
2007-12-15 12:01:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on whether you believe in evolution or creation. If you believe in evolution, the egg was used by other pre-chicken ancestors. The first true chicken would have hatched from an egg. If you believe in creation, then God created the first chicken. That chicken would have laid the first egg.
2007-12-15 11:01:10 · answer #5 · answered by Raul D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2007-12-15 10:54:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The egg
2007-12-15 11:21:52 · answer #7 · answered by CoCo_Chanel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well ya see here, the chicken came, then the egg came, then another chicken came, then the egg came... then all the lil chicks became mommy & daddy chicken and grandchickens and it became a chicken licken family =]
2007-12-15 11:01:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. That is where the mutations occurred that eventually (through evolution) caused chickens to become what they are today.
Interesting fact: Chickens are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs.
2007-12-15 15:44:09 · answer #9 · answered by violingirl7777 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the egg came first because the chicken was an egg before it became a chicken so it must have been an egg that made more chickens that originally were......eggs! I fink...haha I don't even know what I just said! Looll.. don't take no notice of me..lool
2007-12-15 11:00:45 · answer #10 · answered by Cherise 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i actually saw a programme on this and it was the egg that came first because the animal that chickens evolved from already layed eggs so therfore the egg came first same as the acorn and the oak the tree that the oak evolved from was already using acorn type seeds so the acorn came first in that instance too!!
2007-12-16 02:31:29 · answer #11 · answered by donny boy!!! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋