Citing proof or facts from web sites would be helpful.
2007-12-19 17:31:28 · 21 answers · asked by I like Hot Pockets 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well, if you believe in Evolution, the egg must have come first... because some genetic ancestor to the chicken must have laid the first egg that would give birth to the first chicken. So the timeline would look like this:
not chicken -> egg with chicken -> chicken.
Therefore the egg happened first.
If you believe in Creationism... hmm.. magic? I dunno what those whacky morons believe.
2007-12-19 17:34:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
The darwinian view is that eggs as a reproductive technology predate not only chickens but all birds. The assumption that birds evolved from earlier egg-laying animals is of course cental to this understanding.
It is not credible that chickens would have evolved the egg laying pattern of reproduction after they had existed as a species.
While it mayu be said that God made a chicken with an egg, the Bible does not assert that. Nor does it assert that once life had been created it would necessarily have remained unchanged.
If God did create life that is able to adapt to its environment by changes in its internal chemistry, is that not as miraculous as any assumed inability of life to adapt? It is an insult to God to suggest that God stopped creating once all existing species had been formed. The assumption that life is inherently capable of evolving is not such and insult to its creator.
While we may argue that parents came before children, actually the children were before they became parents, so that answers nothing.
2007-12-19 17:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by donfletcheryh 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe the egg came first.
At some point, the chicken evolved from a creature of past times. Basically, at some point in the evolution, there was a creature that bore more resemblance to the modern chicken then to the creature it evolved from, meaning it can be considered the first chicken, hatched form the first chicken egg, that was not laid by a chicken.
2007-12-19 17:35:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Egg had to have came first, What ever made the first chicken was not a chicken, the chicken is a mutation of something that came before it that evolved.
2007-12-19 17:36:43 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew W 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There is no proof or facts to support either, so I'll go with the chicken since I believe in the creation.
2007-12-20 06:08:55 · answer #5 · answered by EveretteDavid 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Egg before the chick and hen before the egg? It is a circular logic and has no stop or start.
Could you ever predict an origin and end in a circle? Every point is an origin and every point is an end.
2007-12-19 21:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by Harihara S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the chicken came first, but the chicken wasn't a chicken yet. It evolved as time went by from other birds, which evolved from other birds/animals - on and on - theory of evolution. Just like we evolved from apes, then came our children.
2007-12-19 17:44:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Logically, the chicken came first. She laid a (fertilized) egg that hatched into a baby rooster. As we know, a chick couldn't hardly live on its own, so his mother took care of him 'til he grew up. They mated and had more eggs and ETC.
I win =)
2007-12-19 17:36:06 · answer #8 · answered by Justmyinput 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The chicken -eggs must develop inside a previously existing biological entity.
2007-12-19 17:53:01 · answer #9 · answered by Jeanne B 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
the egg has been in existence for a few hundred million years by oviparous animals. The chicken has been in existence for a few million years.
Case closed.
2007-12-19 17:46:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋