Can we solve eternal question - What came first chicken or egg?

Question

I vote for chicken, but with good explanation I can accept egg.

Answer 1

The answer is obvious. If you are a creationist, God created the chicken, so it came first. However, if you believe in the process of evolution, then God created the cell and set in motion the process by which everything evolved. In that case, the egg was laid by a slightly different creature and the chicken hatched out as a mutation of it's mother and father. So the egg came first.

Answer 2

PLEASE READ ALL The egg came first because other animals came before the chicken that had eggs of some kind. One kind are the fish in the seas; fish lay eggs. Another are snakes; snakes also lay eggs. Only if this question was asked as, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?", would it be a paradox. Sexually reproducing animals also have eggs- the question doesn't specify a type of egg. Dinosaurs had eggs. Darwin's theory; the chicken egg came from a different species. A chicken could not have its genetic material altered during life, so the egg must have evolved and been first. If you take into account the doctrine of evolution, the egg's coming first becomes plausible on the cellular level under perfect circumstances (abundant food and resources). There will be an a-sexual reproduction once the environment becomes unfavorable. The species would then evolve, and a lot of animals have no parental instincts but through evolution some have started to look after their young. An a-sexual reproduction is reproduction in which there is no fusion of male and female sex cells gametes. The egg came first because the chicken descended from a dinosaur, and it laid an egg that was changed from Darwin's theory. The egg came first because a chicken comes from an egg. At whatever point you decide to call the chicken a true chicken, it must have come from an egg. Because the different species before it must have evolved to make a chicken, the egg came first. THE CHICKEN CAME FIRST: Using Literature, the chicken comes first. Using grammar, "the chicken" comes first in the sentence (They come before the words, "the egg".). In a dictionary, the word "chicken" comes before "egg". God created the chicken first. In the seven days that God created the earth, it makes no mention of animal's eggs. Thus, the chicken came first. The chicken came first because, if the chicken didn't come first, there would be no egg or care for it. So, God had to make the chicken first. NEITHER THE EGG NOR THE CHICKEN CAME FIRST: There is no answer.Since the question is a paradox, there is no answer. If the chicken came first, it came from the egg. If the egg came first, then it came from a chicken, and so forth. There is no correct answer that can be proven. It's all theory. Evolution suggests that both chickens and eggs evolved from creatures and "egg-things" you would not recognize to be part of the lineage. (Similar to how, in the very distant past, some molecule[s] that was [were] not what we would call "life" became "life".) That was the beginning. The rooster came first.Neither the chicken or the egg came first. It was the rooster who came first. The egg and the chicken came at the same time.The chicken and the egg are just two different names for the same process or being. It's like water becoming ice is still water, and vice versa.

Answer 3

*the egg.

think about it.. yes it does take a female and male to make a baby BUT if organisms of a different species went wrong, that is probably how the baby was made. a chicken is FROM and egg :]

look at this:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/


In specific:

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.


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In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first, and when it hatched, there was the chicken...

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basically, the egg came first because if another animal mutated with another and something went wrong or there was a mutation, the egg of the chicken had the same dna of the chicken which means; the egg came first. the chicken came as soon as that mutated egg hatched.!

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by the way, i do believe in god; im christian. i am just saying what logically seems right. i know that god created man.. but everything else evolved kind of :]. and if he doesnt like something he will find a way to end it. like dinosaurs.. maybe he thought they were causing too much harm to other creatures that he wanted to be there.

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merry christmas

Answer 4

Before the question of 'Who came first' can be answered, another question must be asked: Who was on top?

Kidding, of course. The chicken was evolved from microbacteria found in the primordial sludge of the Mesozoic Period. The chicken eventually started to grow out and become what we know it to be today, but it didnt form a beak until about 47 BC.

Until after its evolution, it began laying eggs, thus, the chicken did, in fact, come first.

Answer 5

It depends on your beliefs. If you believe in creationism then you believe that the chicken came first, because it was created by God. But if you believe in evolution,then the chicken slowly evolved from something else...although it would've come from an egg.

Answer 6

We should ask Noah! What did he take in the Ark?? A chicken and a rooster or two eggs?? I don't believe he took the eggs because we never heard anything about omelet in the Ark....

Answer 7

egg, becuase the chicken evolved into what it is.
The egg has been around for much longer than chickens

Answer 8

If chickens didn't come first, who laid the egg?

Answer 9

the egg

Answer 10

how did the chicken get here without an egg.. huh?