We've all heard this one before - Let me know your opinion on this!
2007-12-15 12:38:39 · 15 answers · asked by Aaron Artille 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think this is when our usual logic does not fully work. Not that logic itself doesn't work. But it's hard to explain imaginary numbers (square root of a negative) with only using basic arithmetic natural numbers and addition. So it's not a A or B, but an indeterminate state. Which means, in this case, an indeterminate organism neither chicken nor egg, nor both, but share characteristics. And since evolution is generally either smooth (slow change) or quick (sudden mutation), it would help explain. So either a mutated egg gave rise to a chicken, or an organism slowly changed to chicken-egg over long periods of time. So, in a sense, both came around at the same time. The eggs slowly came in, and so did the proto-chickens.
2007-12-15 13:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by Mitchell 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It was actually the "Egg-Chicken," a little-know entity that was but an egg with forked feet and functional wings. Egg-Chicken attempted to cross the road, but was struck, and subsequently became the first to "hatch" a new being: the Chicken. That chicken bore eggs, but some still remember Egg-Chicken's initial attempt at getting to the other side.
2007-12-15 20:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by Harry Rosenthal 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the egg.
going on the modern synthesis theory, evolution happens through mutation, it seems logical that some almost-chicken laid an egg that was a mutated almost-chicken, that we reconize as the chicken. tegg hatched and almost-chicken was very confused to see the first "real" chicken.
~~~ morgannia
2007-12-15 23:53:12 · answer #3 · answered by Morgannia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alan Watts said that a chicken is an egg's way of becoming other eggs.
2007-12-15 22:54:22 · answer #4 · answered by yet-knish! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The egg came first. The question doesn't ask "which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg'.
2007-12-15 20:45:15 · answer #5 · answered by Gee Whizdom™ 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I would say the egg.
Reason being......if life started from asteroid and comet goop, and the bacterias and enzymes started to coagulate, then it would seem logical for a hard shell to form as a protective covering for the new life form inside.
2007-12-15 20:43:31 · answer #6 · answered by Ella 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think the chicken.we can all argue '' but how did the chicken come to be? it has to come from an egg!" i change my anwere.i think none came first.they were all created at the same time.
2007-12-15 20:43:36 · answer #7 · answered by freakytoad53 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the chicken. the first chicken ever [[[super chicken]]] didnt need to be hatched from an egg.
2007-12-15 20:41:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
egg
2007-12-15 21:46:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually the rooster came first...had a smoke and then took a nap...Any questions?
2007-12-15 21:01:58 · answer #10 · answered by vitraux 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋