Which came fist the chicken or the egg?
Answers:
Neither. A dinosaur.
chicken
the chicken for sure
just look at Adam And Eve
EGG!
the chicken.
the chicken, because God created the animals first, and adam and eve first, not all babies and what not..
When you typed that into the question header, did you see a list of like 200 identical questions underneath?
I would say that it is impossible to tell for sure. From an evolutionary standpoint, and heres why.
A non-egg-laying chicken isnt really a chicken. its a different species altogether. Any non-egg-laying animal "giving birth" to a similar animal that lays eggs (a chicken), who in turn lays eggs of its own kind. Hence, chicken before egg.
Or, the other way around. an egg-laying animal that isnt a chicken produced offspring that was a chicken. Hence, egg before chicken.
No matter how you look at it, from an evolutionary and logical perspective, it is impossible to tell
I would say, though, that more likely the egg came first. It makes more sense that all egg-laying birds on the planet have a common ancestor. This branch of the tree of evolution all contain egg-laying birds, one of whom fathered the chicken.
From a creationists standpoint, the chicken most definately came before the egg. Life was created first. then God said "go forth and multiply" Any creator wouldnt have created life in its infant stage of development, leaving it to fend for itself.
Another interesting question to ask, and in fact it changes the answer to the evolutionists take, is this play on words.
What is a chicken egg?
Is it an egg that carries a chicken embryo?
Or is it an egg layed by a chicken?
By definition, if a chicken egg is one layed by a chicken parent, then logically any chicken egg had to have been preceded by the chicken who laid it. Chicken before egg.
By definition, if a chicken egg is one which yields a baby chicken, then logically any chicken egg had to precede a chicken. Egg before chicken.
But what is a chicken?
A bird that came from a chicken egg?
or a bird that lays chicken eggs?
Using this argument on semantics and looking back on the evolutionists take, even if the egg came before the chicken doesnt mean that the chicken egg came before the chicken.
The "chicken." Ever heard of evolution? A specimen will change to adapt - as they did here, thus, the "chicken" came first, and then the egg.
Welcome to PetQnA.com .
The egg of something not-quite-a-chicken mutated into what we recognize as a chicken. So, the egg came first and the first chicken hatched from it.
the eggs , and the eggs were created by nature, by little cells, germ, water ect.. and created eggs, then the chicken came out, from that point the chickens started to make eggs:-)
Many reptiles that preceeded the chicken were egg layers. Another angle: No chicken by todays definition was born by any other means than being hatched from a you know what.
i guess it depends on what you believe in but i believe god created the earth universe and all animals. he made 2 of everything female and male so it was obviously a chicken and then reproduced to make more chickies.
Well, that all depends..did you evolve from God who told all the living to go out and multiply? Must have been a chicken then that came first.
Or , are you evolved from apes? Which would say an egg was first. You decide.decedent of God or decedent of apes. I am descended from God personally.
THE CHICKEN
(I type it in all caps so mine would be noticed)
you see, the chicken didn't just appear, it evolved from the cells in the primordial "soup". some of the cells in the primordial "soup" still exist, but they all reproduced by cell division.
The chicken.
The answer is found in the bible when it talks about God creating all the animals and specifically mentions the birds.
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.
History of the problem
The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:
".the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world."
Various answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humorous.
As suggested by the alternative definitions and solutions given below, the chicken-or-egg dilemma has multiple semantic variants and can thus be viewed as an exercise in semantics. Regarding at least two of these variants, the field of biology contains decisive contextual information. Although the problem has been around in one form or another for millennia, making it difficult or impossible to know who first "solved" it, the biological information needed to resolve all of the obvious semantic variants has only been available for decades.
A modern analysis covering all of the major variants was authored by Christopher Langan, published in 2001 on the Mega Foundation website[1], and subsequently included in his book of essays, The Art of Knowing [1]. It appeared again in The Improper Hamptonian [2], was included in abbreviated form in a 2001 Long Island Newsday Q&A column featuring Langan [3], and was compactly summarized in Langan's 2001 Popular Science interview.
A CNN article on May 26, 2006 featured an analysis, according to which the egg came first [2]. The key criteria on which CNN bases its answer, involving relatively recent findings from reproductive and evolutionary biology, are identical to several of those cited in the prior analysis.
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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Neither. A dinosaur.
chicken
the chicken for sure
just look at Adam And Eve
EGG!
the chicken.
the chicken, because God created the animals first, and adam and eve first, not all babies and what not..
When you typed that into the question header, did you see a list of like 200 identical questions underneath?
I would say that it is impossible to tell for sure. From an evolutionary standpoint, and heres why.
A non-egg-laying chicken isnt really a chicken. its a different species altogether. Any non-egg-laying animal "giving birth" to a similar animal that lays eggs (a chicken), who in turn lays eggs of its own kind. Hence, chicken before egg.
Or, the other way around. an egg-laying animal that isnt a chicken produced offspring that was a chicken. Hence, egg before chicken.
No matter how you look at it, from an evolutionary and logical perspective, it is impossible to tell
I would say, though, that more likely the egg came first. It makes more sense that all egg-laying birds on the planet have a common ancestor. This branch of the tree of evolution all contain egg-laying birds, one of whom fathered the chicken.
From a creationists standpoint, the chicken most definately came before the egg. Life was created first. then God said "go forth and multiply" Any creator wouldnt have created life in its infant stage of development, leaving it to fend for itself.
Another interesting question to ask, and in fact it changes the answer to the evolutionists take, is this play on words.
What is a chicken egg?
Is it an egg that carries a chicken embryo?
Or is it an egg layed by a chicken?
By definition, if a chicken egg is one layed by a chicken parent, then logically any chicken egg had to have been preceded by the chicken who laid it. Chicken before egg.
By definition, if a chicken egg is one which yields a baby chicken, then logically any chicken egg had to precede a chicken. Egg before chicken.
But what is a chicken?
A bird that came from a chicken egg?
or a bird that lays chicken eggs?
Using this argument on semantics and looking back on the evolutionists take, even if the egg came before the chicken doesnt mean that the chicken egg came before the chicken.
The "chicken." Ever heard of evolution? A specimen will change to adapt - as they did here, thus, the "chicken" came first, and then the egg.
Welcome to PetQnA.com .
The egg of something not-quite-a-chicken mutated into what we recognize as a chicken. So, the egg came first and the first chicken hatched from it.
the eggs , and the eggs were created by nature, by little cells, germ, water ect.. and created eggs, then the chicken came out, from that point the chickens started to make eggs:-)
Many reptiles that preceeded the chicken were egg layers. Another angle: No chicken by todays definition was born by any other means than being hatched from a you know what.
i guess it depends on what you believe in but i believe god created the earth universe and all animals. he made 2 of everything female and male so it was obviously a chicken and then reproduced to make more chickies.
Well, that all depends..did you evolve from God who told all the living to go out and multiply? Must have been a chicken then that came first.
Or , are you evolved from apes? Which would say an egg was first. You decide.decedent of God or decedent of apes. I am descended from God personally.
THE CHICKEN
(I type it in all caps so mine would be noticed)
you see, the chicken didn't just appear, it evolved from the cells in the primordial "soup". some of the cells in the primordial "soup" still exist, but they all reproduced by cell division.
The chicken.
The answer is found in the bible when it talks about God creating all the animals and specifically mentions the birds.
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.
History of the problem
The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:
".the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world."
Various answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humorous.
As suggested by the alternative definitions and solutions given below, the chicken-or-egg dilemma has multiple semantic variants and can thus be viewed as an exercise in semantics. Regarding at least two of these variants, the field of biology contains decisive contextual information. Although the problem has been around in one form or another for millennia, making it difficult or impossible to know who first "solved" it, the biological information needed to resolve all of the obvious semantic variants has only been available for decades.
A modern analysis covering all of the major variants was authored by Christopher Langan, published in 2001 on the Mega Foundation website[1], and subsequently included in his book of essays, The Art of Knowing [1]. It appeared again in The Improper Hamptonian [2], was included in abbreviated form in a 2001 Long Island Newsday Q&A column featuring Langan [3], and was compactly summarized in Langan's 2001 Popular Science interview.
A CNN article on May 26, 2006 featured an analysis, according to which the egg came first [2]. The key criteria on which CNN bases its answer, involving relatively recent findings from reproductive and evolutionary biology, are identical to several of those cited in the prior analysis.
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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