by Dhadkan on January 28th, 2010

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What came first...the chicken or the egg ?? !!!!

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by Crims on January 28th, 2010

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Neither, Chuck Norris laid the first chicken and the first egg at the same exact moment..
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by shunyata on March 19th, 2011

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I bet you god created chicken and birds first. :-)
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by Jade on October 6th, 2011
I looked it up in the dictionary. Chicken comes first.
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by Charlie is a girl on January 31st, 2010
The ameaba.:)
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by The Chief on January 31st, 2010
Depends on whether you're a creationist or an evolutionist!

If you're a creationist, then the Chicken came first, as God created all the animals before they procreated.

If you're an evolutionist, then the egg came first...because something that wasn't quite a chicken laid the egg that hatched the first chicken.

:):):)
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by Surreality on March 19th, 2011
Simple answer. If you're a creationist, God created the chicken which then made eggs. If you're an evolutionist, and chickens evolved from something else, then eventually, genetically, an egg laid by that something else what genetically a chicken before it hatched.
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by AB is an asylum run by the inmates, ciao! on November 21st, 2010
The egg came long before the chicken. The first amniote, a lizard like animal that lived about 350 million years ago, was the first to produce an amniotic egg capable of being hatched on dry land. Here is an excerpt from the Tree of Life page on the topic:

Many amniote synapomorphies are widely interpreted as adaptations to the rigors of life on land. Indeed, Amniota owes its name to what may be its most distinctive attribute, a large "amniotic" egg. While most of us are most familiar with the hard-shelled eggs found in birds, Stewart (1997) showed that the first amniotic eggs probably had a flexible outer membrane, and that a mineralized (but still flexible) outer membrane is a synapomorphy of reptiles. The heavily mineralized, hard shell is a synapomorphy of archosaurs (crocodiles and birds), and it also appeared at least three times in turtles, and a few times in squamates. This probably explains why the oldest known amniotic egg (Coyne, 1999) only dates from the Lower Triassic (220 My), whereas the oldest amniote dates from the Upper Carboniferous (310 My); the eggs of most (if not all) Paleozoic amniotes must have had a flexible, poorly mineralized or unmineralized outer membrane, and thus had a low fossilization potential (Laurin, Reisz & Girondot, 2000).

The amniotic egg possesses a unique set of membranes: amnion, chorion, and allantois (Fig. 3). The amnion surrounds the embryo and creates a fluid-filled cavity in which the embryo develops. The chorion forms a protective membrane around the egg. The allantois is closely applied against the chorion, where it performs gas exchange and stores metabolic wastes (and becomes the urinary bladder in the adult). As in other vertebrates, nutrients for the developing embryo are stored in the yolk sac, which is much larger in amniotes than in vertebrates generally. Hatchling amniotes also possess an egg-tooth and horny caruncle on the snout tip to facilitate exit from their hard-shelled eggs. The amniotic egg, together with a penis for internal fertilization, loss of a free-living larval stage in the life cycle, and the ability to bury their eggs, enabled amniotes to escape the bonds that confined their ancestors' reproductive activities to aquatic environments. It has been suggested that the original function of the extra-embryonic membranes of the amniotic egg was to facilitate interactions between the mother and the embryo (Lombardi, 1994), but this hypothesis is not supported by the distribution of extended embryo retention in vertebrates, according to most proposed phylogenies (Laurin & Girondot, 1999). Some components of the amniotic egg have been variously modified within Amniota. Placental mammals, for example, have suppressed the egg shell and yolk sac, and elaborated the amniotic membranes to enable nutrients and wastes to pass directly between mother and embryo.
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by ilovejuice on November 21st, 2010
the fuckin egg came first
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by CT on January 29th, 2010
I will say the egg!
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- Who sat on it? :-D
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  by Marky Mark on January 29th, 2010
- Someone else's momma!!
  Hehe :D
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  by CT on January 30th, 2010
- Ohhh I see! Like the cuckoo birds do! Clever...
  ;-D
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  by Marky Mark on January 30th, 2010
- i say the chicken came first. if you think about it from the veiw point of wich came first the sperm or the man i would have to say the man.
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  by checkmatechad on January 31st, 2010
- Haha!! its one of those bizarre question that can drive you insane if you think about it too much..
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  by CT on January 31st, 2010
- yah, i try not to think on that too much
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  by checkmatechad on January 31st, 2010
- A pre-historic hen took a dump and her womb fell out accidentally. Maternal instincts kicked in so she sat on it to keep it warm. A week later a healthy chick was born. The rest is history. Next question.
  
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  by Marky Mark on January 31st, 2010
- Haha!!!
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  by CT on January 31st, 2010
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by -NUNYA-- on June 30th, 2011
Egg
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by TELLITASITIS on June 30th, 2011
The egg!
Dinosaurs laid eggs long before the first chicken evolved.
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by ms_chuck.littles on August 22nd, 2011
Who is going to keep the egg warm? It was the chicken, God created all animals, not all eggs they would all be helpless.
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by IngeG on October 6th, 2011
The chicken. Like us, it formed through the evolution and growth of tiny organisms. Only when that first chicken was formed, an egge could be layed
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- The first chicken came from the first chicken egg.
  Many eggs were laid before that happened by not, quite, chickens.
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  by Bruce_T on October 6th, 2011
- That is always my answer to this question...Eggs were being laid long before the first chicken came along.
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  by Kylroy on October 6th, 2011
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by Gilb on January 29th, 2010
...And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged BIRD after its kind: and God saw that it was good...NOT every winged EGG! - Genesis 1.
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- Oops....pretty biblical !
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  by Dhadkan on January 29th, 2010
- hehe, i was looking for the answer too...and i found this.
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  by Gilb on February 9th, 2010
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by Takei-Shihan on October 6th, 2011
... the egg with the mutation that became the first chicken to ever hatch ...
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by Wonderer on March 19th, 2011
If it's breakfast time, the egg.
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by Brian on January 28th, 2010
always the chicken if the egg is fertilised!
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- Hmmmm....what if the first chicken or egg appeared on earth thru parthenogenesis then !!!
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by MisterKami on March 19th, 2011
An egg, no matter how you look at it. There has been plenty of animals that laid eggs before chickens cameinto existence and event he first official chicken has come out of an egg.

I always wondered why this was a question in the first place.. it's a no brainer to me
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by Revan211 on April 18th, 2010
The quasi-chicken laid the egg first. Out came the "true" chicken.
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by The Anonymous Witch on March 1st, 2010
chicken "soup" ( primortial)
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by substance D on April 18th, 2010
an evolutionist would tell you the chicken,a follower of Christianity would tell you God on the 4th day
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- i haven't figured that out yet,but when i do
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  by substance D on April 18th, 2010
- You have the evolutionary scenario backwards - there were eggs many millions of years before there were birds of any sort. You have oversimplified the religious explanation - only a minority hold that Genesis is a literal account.
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  by canoeguide on August 22nd, 2011
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by Zoomzoom on January 31st, 2010
The chicken
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by TheJoker on February 1st, 2010
Hmmm.... do we know which one was the man?
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by Midnighttoker on January 29th, 2010
The Rooster!!!
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by Clementunited on March 19th, 2011
It is the chicken that came first, and a scientific finding had proven that phenomenon. Researches at the University of Sheffield and Warwick in the United Kingdom had found out that a protein was responsible for producing the eggshells- and that is found in the ovaries. So, this leaves another question: why did the chicken cross the road??? :)
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