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What do you think the answer is to the age-old question: Which came first: The chicken or the egg?

The egg was laid by an animal resembling the modern chicken nearly perfectly. Out of that egg came what we know as the chicken.

The egg came first.

What he said. It was a great moment of my young life when I came to that conclusion by myself.

technically speaking, reptiles have been laying shelled eggs since long before the chicken(or any bird) came into existence.

I ate them both. *burp*

Egg stuffed chicken. A delightful dish.

Every time I see the title of this thread, the phrase "she did" comes to mind. Sad, really. I don't even have a girlfriend.

What came first? What they evolved from.

Raxmei wrote:Every time I see the title of this thread, the phrase "she did" comes to mind. Sad, really. I don't even have a girlfriend.

You must be a virgin to, the female orgasm is a myth perpetuated by the porn industry.

Where did the chicken come from? The egg.
Where did the egg come from? The precursor species to the chickens, of course.

Neither.
There is no "chicken," no "egg," ONLY ZUUL!!!

There is no chicken. There is no egg. Just like:

THERE IS NO SPOON!

There is only the Matrix...

No. You will all bow before Zod.

neoolong wrote:No. You will all bow before Zod.

Hah, that's what you think!

I'll kneel before Zod!

Sriad wrote:

neoolong wrote:No. You will all bow before Zod.

Hah, that's what you think!

I'll kneel before Zod!

Zod likes having his followers bow before him now.

And, why do you say this to me when you know I will kill you for it?

Eggs are a breakfast food.

Chicken is more typically eaten with lunch and supper.

Therefore, the egg comes first.

If i were one to belive in the " bible, ' and was one to belive in the " God," I would have to belive that he created the chicken as well to lay the egg at some point in the timeline. However, i choose not to follow either, but the chicken comming first just makes more sense. Perhaps something like it came and layed an egg that spawned a chicken... thats my two sense.

I say God created the Chicken. But either way, the egg needed a chicken of some sort to lay it.

Hethrir wrote:But either way, the egg needed a chicken of some sort to lay it.

Nobody specified whether it was a chicken egg or not. Obviously, one does not actually need a chicken to get an egg, but you need an egg for a chicken to hatch from!

We could refine the question and ask 'Which came first the chicken or the chicken-egg?"

And we'd then have to define what we mean by 'chicken'. Assuming an evolutionary origin for the domestic chicken, we could imagine tracing its ancestors back, Eventually we'd come to a point were mother not-quite-chicken and father not-quite-chicken got together and produced something that satisified our criteria and was a chicken. This would be the first chicken. Call it Chicken-prime.

Now the question becomes - is the egg that Chicken-prime hatched from a chicken-egg? Again this comes down to definitions. I guess we'd define a chicken-egg as being 'an egg laid by a chicken' As the egg from which chicken-prime hatched could not possibly be a chicken-egg, there being no previously-existing chicken to produce it, we can conclude that the chicken existed before the chicken-egg.

However, it could be argued the other way, if we defined a chicken egg as 'any egg that contains what we define genetically as a chicken, regardless of the source of the egg'. This way, egg comes first.

To make a choice between these two alternatives, I'm let down by my lack of knowledge about eggs. Specifically, do the non-embryo parts of an egg (shell, albumen, yolk etc) contain genetic material from the mother? If they do, then we have a much stronger DNA-based definition for the chicken-eggness of any given egg. Since the egg containing chicken-prime would contain the DNA of mother-not-quite-chicken, we can say that it is not a chicken-egg, and again the answer is that the chicken came first.

It was a great moment of my young life when I came to that conclusion by myself.

Same here.

Drooling Iguana wrote:Eggs are a breakfast food.

Chicken is more typically eaten with lunch and supper.

Therefore, the egg comes first.

In my current state of hunger, I'm more inclined to believe in this one...

The egg came first.

Abiogenesis came first.

We could refine the question and ask 'Which came first the chicken or the chicken-egg?"

Infinite regress. No point.