Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Serious replies only, oh all right.

lothruin

Hmm, serious, eh? Well... If a person takes evolution to its furthest limit, with the beginnings of all life at the cellular level, then one could make a good case for the egg coming first, in some form or another. Further, if you want to know which came first, the chicken or the CHICKEN egg, then its probably a safe bet from an evolutionary standpoint that the egg came first, because the first set of mutated cells that made a chicken had to incubate somewhere. However, I'm sure many creationists would tell you the chicken came first. Unless God made the eggs first. Though, I'd guess that would be a lot more work for God, what with also having to make a nest and something to keep the eggs warm for hatching and what not, so it would be easier to just make the chickens and let them take care of all that. Nov 10 03, 7:28 PM

gmackematix

An egg is an egg whether produced by a chicken, a proto-chicken or a dinosaur so I would have to be a dumb-cluck not to say "the egg". If, however, we are talkng about a race then the chicken probably came first because it has legs and eggs tend to just roll about in circles. Provided, that is, there wasn't some egg-propulsion system like a child carrying a spoon. Actually, even then, my money is on the chicken. Nov 10 03, 7:28 PM

boman547

As I wrote in the London Times, Sept. 27, 2002: An egg came before the chicken. Animals were procreating through eggs long before there was a chicken. Dinosaurs laid eggs. Over the centuries, evolution eventually produced animals that laid eggs which hatched into something like the modern chicken. Those chickens then laid eggs similar to current chicken eggs.. Nov 10 03, 7:31 PM

Senior Moments

In my dictionary it is chicken. Give us a chance to think it ova as I am a fried to give a half coddled answer or poach somebody elses. Nov 11 03, 12:35 AM

DogRL

Thanks to the good egg who deleted those completely irreverent replies and spared us something most fowl. Nov 11 03, 2:03 AM

messianicideas

I'm a creationist, but if I were an evolutionist I would probably try to defend the egg! Read my article "Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?" at http://messianicideas.com Jan 02 08, 3:03 PM

knowgive

"First," is related to placement in time, time is a measurement of speed, speed is determined by temperature, and temperature is caused by friction, in order to have friction you must have action, and what caused that initial action is the base of the question, to which my answer is God, he created the yoke, the shell to protect the yoke, then the chicken around the egg, and the egg has always been in the chicken, and the chicken has always been in the egg, forever and ever Amen. Feb 02 08, 1:19 PM

Baloo55th

Must be a very big egg if it's got a yoke in it..... Are the oxen in there too? Feb 02 08, 3:31 PM

Arpeggionist

The first chicken hatched from a chicken's egg. The first chicken's egg would have been laid by an ancestral creature, which was not quite a chicken. This can be said about the first egg of any species, really. The egg, therefore, must have come first. Feb 02 08, 5:42 PM