Which came first the chicken or the egg?

[Lucky Bolt 34,915]

Science and common sense tells us the egg comes first....

[CheeryFox 23,811]

That's easy... Proto-Scootaloo. 

[MangoFoalix 24,898]

The egg... of scootaloo!!!

[Dreambiscuit 8,024]

It was the chicken first and the egg second. An egg is part of reproduction and a chicken is a product without the ‘re’ prefix. In order to re-produce you need a mother chicken to lay the egg. There’s a big difference between creation and re-creation.  

[Tropical Melody 5,104]

Egg. There were eggs before there were chickens

 

 

[Guest]

My answer: The fridge. I mean how else am I to cook some eggs?

[Trot Shuffle 3,599]

2 hours ago, StarlightNyars said:

My answer: The fridge. I mean how else am I to cook some eggs?

@StarlightNyars You can cook eggs in a fridge? 

[EpicEnergy 22,098]

Like how far back we talking about though? Like as in what existed before the other? I would say chicken came first.

[Evil Pink One 13,013]

Egg came first.... if you think about it.

[Treeglow Flicker 13,038]

Eggs laid by whatever a chicken gradually evolved from.

[Evil Pink One 13,013]

1 minute ago, Treeglow Flicker said:

Eggs laid by whatever a chicken gradually evolved from.

Thus the egg came first then a chicken came out and the parents had a divorce.

[Envy 6,000]

From my understanding this question actually isn't too hard... Until you get into understanding the boundaries of species.

Simplistically, there was a male and female of a species that would look identical to a chicken to our eyes but is oh-so-slightly different and the egg that the female lays would hatch the first species that is fully a chicken, so to speak. So, the egg came first. There can't be any other way. Species and individual creatures don't just spawn out of nowhere, and there's no way that the creature that  preceded the evolution to the chicken would be different enough that it wouldn't lay eggs, so the first chicken came from an egg. Simple.

But what defines species is a very thin, strange line. I don't think we need to get into that for this question, though.

[Pony Flutters 530]

The egg definitely for breakfast early in the morning. The chicken can come later for lunch or dinner.

[Clawdeen 12,110]

Both will be devoured by me and reach their unfortunate demise. Most likely the egg first for breakfast. The chicken can be my lunch or dinner. 

[DubWolf 16,624]

5 hours ago, Clawdeen said:

Both will be devoured by me and reach their unfortunate demise. Most likely the egg first for breakfast. The chicken can be my lunch or dinner. 

Ya know, knowing your style of posting, I was suspecting you’d say something like this  .

 

Weren’t chickens invented first  ?