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by Jim Sending on January 21st, 2004

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Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

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  • by MRSHINYSHOES on April 28th, 2012

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    Neither. It was the rooster. lol

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  • by Lola Sharmentrout on January 12th, 2006

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    It's obvious isn't it? The chicken came first.

    The chicken had to get laid before the egg could be...hahahahaa

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  • by wfbrad on August 25th, 2004

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    I prefer the simpler answer. God decided that He'd make a chicken one day. The chicken was a kind of bird, and God had already decided that birds would lay eggs. Why mess with a good plan, right?

    So God made a chicken, and then it laid an egg. Simple. Why waste time trying to figure out a puzzle that makes no difference anyway? I eat chickens and eggs.

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  • by Kim Siever on December 6th, 2004

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    It depends on what is meant by "the egg". If it means "chicken egg", then other answers have addressed this. If it means just any egg, then I would have to say the egg came first since fish and reptiles, for example, were created/existed before chickens.

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on November 10th, 2007

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    You need to clarify your question: Firstly, any egg or a chicken egg. Any egg came before chicken eggs. If a chicken egg, what makes an egg a chicken egg: being laid by a chicken, or having a chicken hatch out of it? Because the first chicken came from an egg laid by a pre-chicken. So if it is an egg laid by a chicken, the chicken came first; if it is an egg from which a chicken hatched, it is the egg.

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  • by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on July 26th, 2007

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    Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

    Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

    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.

    "Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

    The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

    Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

    He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.

    "I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

    "If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

    Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

    He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."

    The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD.

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  • by Dakini on July 18th, 2005

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    Problem goes away when you realize that the chicken and the egg are the same "thing". Neither existed first. Both are stages of existance of the same thing. They are co-creators in a dependant origination relationship.

    "First" is a time issue. Time is relative, so you would have to have some more data to answer the question. As in "From what point on what timeline...and in what direction?"

    We just think things are "first" because we come across them "first" when mentally traveling whatever timeline we're using at the...uh...time.

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  • by ...... on March 13th, 2008

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    In my opinion the chicken came first. As it would be the same as saying who came first you or your parents.

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  • by JTP on January 15th, 2008

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    Pfft this is easy. Chuck Norris came first, he round-house kicked the earth into splitting in half, revealing an egg that would become a chicken.

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  • by Farino on July 15th, 2005

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    The answer depends upon whether you belive in evolution or creation.
    If you beliueve in evolution then the egg came first: Genetic variation occurs with every generation, the creature that laid the first chicken egg was ever so similar to a chicken but genetically different enough to not be classified as a chicken.
    If you believe in creationism then the chicken was put on this earth in adult form and hasn't changed.

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  • by Special K on January 15th, 2009

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    The egg had to come before the chicken. A creature very similar to a chicken , but not a chicken, layed the egg.

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  • by Skiore on January 16th, 2008

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    Eggs don't orgasm.

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  • by ella_D_sinnah on November 30th, 2004

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    for me, the chicken came first. because in creation, God made all living things. how would an egg hatch if there is no chicken to warm the egg? well, when God created man and all living things, the chicken was created first and then these chickens made eggs.

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  • by Cyndi Ninja on January 15th, 2008

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    The egg, dinosaurs laid eggs and chicken evolved from dinosaurs.

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  • by Type_R on June 6th, 2005

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    It had been scientifically observed that the egg came first...because

    1. In the process of evolution the chicken used to be another type of bird called some ferrral or falcon (forgot the name) just like how humans used to be homo sapiens.

    2. As we give birth, our childrens are the one with the changed attributes, for example Hairy cavemen-like humans would give birth to less hairy childrens.

    3. The falcon/ferral or whatever used to fly, a chicken CANNOT fly

    4. as it was evolving a few birds gave birth to ones without wings...(because it was unecessary or whatever that has to do with natural selection but i won't go into detail of how evolution works)

    5. Those without wings are called "chicken"

    6. AND those chickens were once in eggs

    AND SO the first chickens species were in eggs first before they hatched and became the chicken

    GET IT???

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  • by proverbialmom on May 22nd, 2005

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    If we are referring to the early ancestor of the modern chicken and the egg that would be associated with that bird, then the bird came first. Why?

    God created the heavens and the earth with the "appearance" of age. He created a mature Adam and Eve, mature trees and shrubs, and even a mature earth. He created adult animals so that they could "be fruitful and multiply." So, he created male and female birds and the eggs came later.

    Hope that helps.

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  • by Tinkerbell on January 15th, 2009

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    A non chicken laid an egg whgich contained a genetic mutation which led to the firsat chicken. Depends on how you define a chicken really. There would have been little immediate difference between the parent and child but that is how evolution works. Animal different ot chicken - closer to chicken - nearly chicken - chicken, with about a million or so steps removed. You need to say "the absense of this particular trait means non-chicken" and it follow pretty easily from there.

    We like to compartmentalise so it is difficult to say where the dividing line is. There probably isn't one but we like to say "chikens are chickens and dogs are dogs" for convenience and to be able to classify/study.

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  • by tamarakh is ready for a vacation on November 10th, 2008

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    I think this answers your question definitively.

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  • by pudzey101 on September 8th, 2006

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    In this case, the egg is not assumed to be a chicken egg. In effect this changes the question to: "Which came first, a chicken or any egg".

    From a cellular biology point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.

    If the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.

    In this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first true chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg. After all, the question is purposefully ambiguous -- it is not, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"

    The crux of the matter is how to biologically define 'a chicken'. What level of genetic similarity or structural similarity determine whether an organism is a chicken? One can only define what was the first chicken after the fact, thus any definition of the first chicken becomes arbitrary. The question 'which came first?' ignores the complicated reality of speciation. The concept of species is an abstraction intended to categorize a broad swath of genomes and their subsequent phenomes. If one were to do away with approximate categories, each individual 'chicken' actually represents a unique genotype. Under this definition, if a 'chicken' possessing genome A were to lay an egg possessing genome B, then an egg of genome B is antecedent to an animal possessing genome B and that the parent--genome A--is antecedent to, yet different from the egg of genome B. Hence, in an absolute sense, the egg came before the 'chicken.'

    According to the principles of speciation, neither the chicken nor the egg came first, because speciation does not occur in simple, obvious units. In fact, evolution is about a slow transition in an overall population. What qualifies as “chicken” (ignoring the many diverse modern types of chicken) involves a wide range of genetic traits (alleles) that are not encompassed in a single individual and continue to be modified from generation to generation.

    The transition from non-chicken to chicken is a grey area in which several generations are involved, and therefore which includes many many chicken-and-egg events, with no one step representing the whole. Since the result of the process is an incomplete transition into various new characteristics rather than one single blueprint, a new species, "chicken", is only identified in hindsight when the species can be obviously identified as different from its ancestral stock.

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    Theological answers
    According to creationists who believe in Biblical inerrancy, birds were created "on the fifth day". Since there is no reference to the creation of eggs, they presumably were then made by chickens afterwards by the normal process. Therefore, the chicken came first.

    Alternatively, for those who accept the intelligent design form of creationism, Eugene Volokh has noted that "In my experience, most creationists are also pro-life -- in which case, the egg is a chicken."

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  • by Butterflyfairy28 on May 10th, 2006

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    Evolution is a theory??? Evolution has not been proven??? Has evolution ever been disproven???

    Anyone who knows anything about science (which is obvious that most of you do not) knows that science is considered to be true unless proven otherwise.

    Charles Darwin introduced what we now call the "theory of evolution" in the mid 1800s. The "theory of evolution" has not been able to be disproven for over 150 years. You would think that with all the advances that we have made in science recently, we would now ,more than ever, be able to disprove the "theory of evolution," if it were in fact a false theory. Well we haven't. I really think that's saying something... don't you?

    Also, in the science world, "theory" does not mean the same thing it means in our everyday world. Scientific theory is defined as "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world." In science, a "theory" is a belief that has been verified by actual experimentation and/or observation. Most biologists believe that evolution is more than a theory; it is an established fact.

    And for all you morons out there that think that evolution is just a "theory" you know what else is a theory - gravity!! Gravitational theory. You guys saying that evolution doesn't exist is the equivalent of saying that gravity doesn't either.

    I understand all of you Christians want to believe in your God. That's fine. But obviously none of you who wrote anything here have any scientific background. Please do not speak about matters in which you are unfamiliar. I have a Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Forensic Science. I have studied the field of Biology for almost ten years now.

    I was raised Roman Catholic, I learned all about God and Christ and the whole nine. In no way, shape, or form would I say that I am an expert in Theology. I would never comment on the existence of God. Just because I do not believe in God does not mean that I should force my views onto other people and try to tell them that God does not exist.

    Theology is completely different from science. Theology is based on faith, and science is based on proven, substantiated facts. You want proof that science exists? Look around you. That antibiotic that cured your bacterial infection - science. That surgery you needed last year - science. That chemotherapy to slow the growth of cancer you had - science.

    Evolution is all around you too. Ever heard of vestigial structures? I'm assuming that the answer is no. A vestigial structure is your appendix or your tail bone. Structures that we have today that we no longer use. We used to use them in the past, when we were different animals. I'd challenge any of you to disprove evolution. Even the top theologists can't do it, as much as they want to. So until the day comes (which will be never) that evolution is disproved - evolution exists. Period. End of story.

    Oh, yeah you Christians are so hypocritical. You need so much proof that evolution exists but you don't need any proof that God exists? Why is that? You can see/touch/feel/taste/hear science. You can't do any of those things with God.

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  • by Thom64 on August 19th, 2004

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    What we recognize as a chicken, like most common domestic animals, is essentially a product of many generations of selective breeding by many generations of farmers. Some of today's chicken breeds date back only a few years, others centuries. I suspect all of today's breeds developed within the last thousand years or so... maybe three or four thousand at the outside. I doubt their ancestors before that would be recognizable as chickens.

    So, the chicken egg has to be my answer as well.

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on January 15th, 2008

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    Define you question better.
    Any egg? The egg came long before the chicken.
    A chicken egg? Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken or an egg from which a chicken hatches?
    It it is an egg laid by a chicken, the chicken came first to lay it.
    If it is an egg from which a chicken hatches, the egg came first for the chicken to hatch from.
    If you asked your question *properly*, the answer is easy,

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  • by Lady Alathia of Vulcan on December 5th, 2007

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    A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking a bit pissed off. The egg mutters, to no-one in particular, "Well, I guess we answered THAT question!"

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  • by djb1969 on November 29th, 2006

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    This question has never truely been answered, only partly-answered (it all matters how you interpret it):

    Overall:
    The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". Since both the chicken and the egg create the other in certain circumstances (a chicken emerges from an egg; an egg is laid by a chicken) it is ambiguous which originally gave rise to the other. Purely logical attempts to resolve the dilemma result in an infinite regress, since an egg was caused by a chicken, which was caused by an egg, etc. Since every chicken originates from its egg, it seems obvious the egg came first. Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life. The solution may require an examination of syntax and may rely on verification from advances in modern genetic science. When used in reference to difficult problems of causality, the chicken and egg dilemma is often used to appeal to the futility of debate and lay it to rest.

    Language:
    There is one common answer that over 75 million people agree upon. People fluent in the Thai (Thailand) language will tell you that the first character or letter of the Thai alphabet "gaw" and is represented by a picture of a chicken. The second letter of the Thai alphabet is "kaw" and is represented by the picture of an egg. So, this riddle for these people is a no-brainer. The chicken came first and then came the egg.

    Creationists:
    According to creationists who believe in Biblical inerrancy, birds were created "on the fifth day" as adolescents or adults. Since there is no reference to the creation of eggs, they presumably were then made by chickens afterwards by the normal process. Therefore, the chicken came first.

    ...And In Terms Of The Question:
    One can consider the question inside the framework of experience, making the question concrete instead of abstract: "The chicken or the egg - which came first?" "The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.

    Hope this helps.

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  • by grumpyt on November 29th, 2006

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    as most females will tell ya it "it always happens the male comes first and rolls over and goes to sleep so therefore it was the ROOSTER

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  • by Darryl61 on June 29th, 2006

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    The chicken came first. An egg does not produce a chicken unless it is fertilized by a (you guessed it) chicken!

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  • by pugwashjw65 on January 1st, 2006

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    The common sense answer is that the chicken came first. It had to exist to lay the egg. An egg cannot make itself. The animal then had to come from somewhere. And the only answer is to be created by God. As stated at Genesis 1;20-22. An important part of the scripture is the words.."according to its kind". This shows that one species cannot change into any other species.

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  • by Mary Mary quite contrary on July 3rd, 2011

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    The egg. It's "parents" were a turkey and a partridge hen. It all makes sense now, doesn't it?

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  • by 23Skidoo on January 24th, 2009

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    The egg, obviously.

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on January 15th, 2009

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    Clarify your question: any egg, or a chicken egg. If the latter, do you mean an egg laid by a chicken or an egg from which a chicken hatched? Once you have clarified your muddled question, the answer is obvious (egg, chicken, egg, for the three cases).

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  • by Babycakes Deux on November 14th, 2008

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    According to the dictionary, chicken is before egg

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  • by Wide Awake @ has closing date woo hoo on October 7th, 2008

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    In the dictionary, "chicken" comes first.

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  • by Outta here on August 30th, 2008

    Outta here

    It has to be the egg. If chickens come from eggs then the egg had to come first. But what layed the egg was not a chicken. If it did not come from an egg then it's not a true chicken. Maybe something like a lizard layed the first egg. Birds did evolved from reptiles.

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  • by Anonymous on June 10th, 2008

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    There were eggs millions of years before the first chicken hatched from one.

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  • by Mr. Meaulnes on February 13th, 2008

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    Dinosaurs, reptiles, and fish were laying eggs long before the chicken ever hit the scene.

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  • by Dedao Capoeira-seed on December 5th, 2007

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    Believing that chickens evolved from something else, I'm going to say the egg came first.

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  • by MG1942 Has a Life Penguin on November 10th, 2007

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    I'm thinkin' the egg.........but then again my kids go to a Christian school and I have trouble explaining dinosaurs and things to them.......I think I'm gonna refer you to MOM............;)

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  • by mother earth on November 10th, 2007

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    The egg. What laid it wasn't exactly a chicken. What came out of it was. The egg came first.

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  • by glamorgirli on December 24th, 2006

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    This querstion has been asked soooooooo many times!

    Eggs were around way before chickens were evoloed, so eggs came first!

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  • by ChrisDG on December 8th, 2006

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    The egg had to come first as in purely evolutionary terms, the very first example of what could be classed as the species of chicken would have orignally hatched from an egg. The animal that laid the egg was the precursor species. However, since evolution in higher organisms is very gradual slow, this answer maynot be 100% totally valid - makes sense to me though.

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  • by glamorgirli on November 29th, 2006

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    eggs were around way before the chicken evolved, Dinosaures layed eggs reptiles lay eggs, so the eggs came first.

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  • by SoothSeeker on November 29th, 2006

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    Egg, Evolution answers this question.

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  • by romios on September 21st, 2006

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    The answer is really quite simple.
    By any definition, an egg is merely a by-product of an animal. For a chicken egg to exist, it requires an adult hen and an adult rooster to fertilize the egg. Otherwise it would just be a scrambled egg! Remember roosters?
    An egg requires a hen to incubate the egg and keep it warm before it can hatch. Remember incubation?
    The young chick requires a chicken to keep it warm, gather food and to protect it from predators. Otherwise it would simply die if left on its own.
    But even if an egg could produce itself, then what? How could other chickens have come about from one egg? An egg cannot give birth to a chicken, whereas a chicken can lay hundreds of eggs in her life.
    In the same way, a baby human cannot give birth to its mother. It requires an adult female and an adult male to fertilize her eggs.
    Furthermore, a baby human and a chicken egg are each produced in the womb of their mother. Neither a baby nor an egg can be produced outside of their mother?s womb.
    Since an egg is only a by-product of a chicken, it is impossible for it to have come before the chicken. Therefore, BOTH the chicken and the rooster came first.

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  • by anonymous on September 8th, 2006

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    Eugh that damn question! The egg, because something really similar but not quite a chicken laid an egg with a mutant of itself that turned out to be a chicken, ok?!?!?!?!?!

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  • by Anonymous on June 29th, 2006

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    The egg. Nobody said it had to be a chicken egg. There were dinosaur and fish eggs long before chickens.

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  • by andywandy on May 9th, 2006

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    The answer is that the chicken came first. why? well if you believe in god, in the bible, Adam was a fully grown man and not a baby so if god created the first things fully grown, that means that the chicken came first.

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  • by Anon on April 22nd, 2006

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    Birds evolved from dinosaurs, and dinosaurs laid eggs, so the egg came first.

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  • by Brad Darr on April 20th, 2006

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    Which came first: the chicken or the egg? The chicken cannot have come about had it not hatched from an egg, and the egg could not have come about had a chicken not laid it.Therefore the chicken, along with its mate, had to both have been created fully formed and functional along with its food sources in order for them both to feed and breed to create other chickens.

    Evolution is an impossibility because Evolution, being mindless, would never know when to say "Ok, we can stop now. This creature is perfect." Furthermore, if Evolution were true, we would see evidence of living things in partial stages of development. All living creatures we see today are fully formed and functional, just as we see in the fossil record and just as it is stated in Genesis.

    Can a plant such as, say, a Maple tree that has no eyes to see "evolve" aerodynamic seedlings that float in the breeze to disperse its seeds? No it cannot. Only an intelligent being with knowledge of aerodynamics could produce a wing-shaped seedling to travel on the wind. Evolution would only randomly make various seedlings, never knowing if its previous result was successful because Evolution has no intelligence to analyze the result of its efforts. But wait: "Its survival would be a gauge for its success" the Evolutionist will say. But no: the Maple does not have any knowledge of it or its seedlings success. The Maple WILL NOT tinker with its genetic code (like it really could if it wanted to) nor could it ever alter its genetic structure to add features, picking and choosing from various genes. Why don't we see trees with feathers or with a thick coat of fur like a polar bear? Such a result is just as probable as an animal sprouting bark because Evolution is mindless, guided only by random process and external environmental forces.
    Both tree and animal are exposed to cold so it would stand to reason a tree would evolve the ability to grow fur.

    The logic of evolution is this: A giraffe got its long neck from millions of years of stretching to reach leaves higher up in the trees. Water-breathing creatures became air-breathers by millions of years of cautious exposure to air. If we follow this logic then we can say if I and all my descendents for millions of years flap our arms and peck at seeds with our noses we'll eventually sprout beaks and feathers and fly off into the air! At the very least our arms will grow longer in an attempt to "evolve" towards flight. This is complete and utter nonsense. It flies in the face of common sense, pardon the pun. The core of this extreme lack of wisdom is simple unbelief founded in a refusal or inability to acknowledge God as creator. Either you are going to believe in the almighty God or you are going to believe in the collective "wisdom" of Man and his feeble efforts to understand what God hath made. I'll place my faith in God, thank you.

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  • by Jan Szafranski on April 13th, 2004

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    Actually this conundrum refers to the 'Roman egg' which is the birth of the universe. The Romans beleived that the universe was born from an 'egg' so the answer was that the egg came before the chicken, however this wasn't a chicken egg. Curiously, the Roman egg as the start of the universe is now surprisingly popular... in that the universe possibly started off as a single dense 'egg' that exploded (big bang).

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  • by Funkycherry on July 3rd, 2011

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    Very simple the egg. Dinosaurs laid eggs. As for a chicken egg being before the chicken once again the egg came first. Chickens as we know them today must have evolved at some point so the very first "modern" chicken came in an egg, so the egg was first.

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