Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

[Rift enchanted 378]

Just as the title implies. Which came first? I'm not just looking for the answer, I wanna see some explanation behind your theory. I also have a challenge. Don't use google.

[Scootalove 10,684]

Scientifically, the egg comes first because for the chicken to exist, the chicken has to be hatched from an egg and start to grow up as time goes by.

Edited February 3, 2014 by Scootalove

[Doctor XFizzle 8,651]

Well our waitress brought out my chicken sandwich and my mom's scrambled eggs at the same time so they both came concurrently. It was a decent lunch.

[Frith is Magick 1,471]

The egg. Eggs would have existed before modern chickens would have evolved. Also, the very first chicken, as we know chickens today, would have hatched from an egg.

[Blaze Bronson 343]

Either a dinosaur (read: weird chicken) laid a chicken egg, due to evolution, so therefore the egg came first.

 

Or else a dinosaur had a mutation, which lead to it becoming a chicken, so the chicken came first.

[Rift enchanted 378]

Well in a way I do have to agree with the egg because you have eggs for breakfast, then chicken for lunch or supper.

[DubWolf 16,693]

The chicken came first. Because eggs are incapable of coming.

[Kamarat 103]

The CHICKUN arose first.



 

Edited February 4, 2014 by Kamarat

[Castle Bleck 19,195]

The chicken, because in order for an egg to be formed, a chicken's internal processes have to do... whatever it is they do.

[hawkflame 3,308]

The egg.  it came from a chicken like ancestor containing an organism with a genetic mutation that we now call a chicken.

[GenderIsAnIllusion 2,177]

Most likely the egg. It's just timing.... Evolutionary changes would cause the chicken to hatch from either a crossbreed, or from it's very very closest ancestor.... So egg first brA.

[Clarity 3,094]

A circle has no beginning.

[Neutrino 47]

Neither. It was the proto-chicken. An ancestor to the chicken.

There.

[Untitled Goose Q 5,136]

The egg came first. Eggs were being laid long before any bird had started to evolve.

 

Even if you specify a chicken egg, the first chicken egg was laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken, tricky as it is to pinpoint when that was.

[PsychedelicPony 440]

Neither really, based on evolution by natural selection one species didn't magically hatch into a chicken after one generation. What actually happened was a very very long time ago one species hatched with one little trait that allowed it to be more reproductively fit and this happened over and over again so that the combination of traits acquired over millions of years gave us what we call a chicken today. This means that this question kind of implies chicken or egg from beginning, when in reality it was I guess an egg that hatched into a chicken after millions of years of evolution.

[Envy 6,007]

Well, I do believe eggs came about long before humans evolved and were able to create structures like the Chichen Itza, so... the egg, of course.

 

(Sorry, couldn't resist).

Edited February 4, 2014 by Envy

[Sugar Pea 2,681]

I don't think I will answer this to be honest...it's a trick question. >_<
Let me explain...this thread has something to do with the theory of evolution, right? Well think about it...in order for the egg the exist, the chicken must come first, BUT in order for the chicken to exist the egg must come first. To say that the chicken came first does not mean the egg never existed, and to say the egg came first does not mean the chicken never existed. Theoretically, if you compare this to the never ending argument that Adam and Eve were the first humans created by, not apes, doesn't mean that evolution ceased to exist...to say that we originated from apes and not from a deity does not mean that there weren't any humans in the first place before hand. 

Forgive me if I went a little off topic. ^ ^'
Feel free to contradict me, but it's just how I think of it...
 

Edited February 4, 2014 by Retro Bunny

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Theoretically, if you compare this to the never ending argument that Adam and Eve were the first humans created by, not apes, doesn't mean that evolution ceased to exist

 

Actually, that's sort of incorrect! O: The Bible states that God created every creature, specifically human was created in his perfect image

 

"Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature." [Genesis]

 

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” [Revelation, I think]

 

With these two quotes, we can discern a couple of things:

1. That, just as humans, all other creatures were created from a recipe of Earth and God breath
2. That everything we know to exist was created once and only once

The Bible doesn't have anything about evolution in it, only the sudden creation by God.

 

"For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse." [Romans]

 

Implies, mostly, that everything was created by Him in the way He wanted them to be from the start. He used his invisible attributes (his power and divinity), then probably said something like, "I'm going to make a chicken" and hence, he made a chicken.

 

So, in conclusion:

 

Creationism: Chicken came first

[Pat.Rio.T. 304]

The chicken came first. Because when God created the world, he created the creatures fully grown. Or to be more specific, what he said. /\

Edited February 4, 2014 by Pat.Rio.T.

[zev_zev The outcast 415]

Egg. One bird XXX with other bird then chicken egg appeared.

[Everleaf 541]

I would say the egg since somehow the Earth had possibly formed the egg and had been warmed within the ground till the hatching and so on the chicken lived 

 

 

 

(i have more info on that but i'm half asleep so i can't think so much about it)

[LunarWave 106]

Since the result of any mutation will only show up in the offspring..

Egg, of course.  

[Sugar Pea 2,681]

Actually, that's sort of incorrect! O: The Bible states that God created every creature, specifically human was created in his perfect image

 

"Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature." [Genesis]

 

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” [Revelation, I think]

 

With these two quotes, we can discern a couple of things:

1. That, just as humans, all other creatures were created from a recipe of Earth and God breath
2. That everything we know to exist was created once and only once

The Bible doesn't have anything about evolution in it, only the sudden creation by God.

 

"For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse." [Romans]

 

Implies, mostly, that everything was created by Him in the way He wanted them to be from the start. He used his invisible attributes (his power and divinity), then probably said something like, "I'm going to make a chicken" and hence, he made a chicken.

 

So, in conclusion:

 

Creationism: Chicken came first

Ooooh I see!

Nice evidence you pulled up there. =w=

Edited February 4, 2014 by Retro Bunny

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Ooooh I see!

Nice evidence you pulled up there. =w=

 

It gets really tricky with the Bible XD Because nothing is said about Evolution, there is still room for interpretation if you're extremely keen on re-wording All in all, the Bible is mostly about interpretation, which is bad :/ leaves a lot of room for jerks to use it for their own gain.

 

And thanks XD;;; I did a lot of religious studies on my own when I went through a period of spiritual confusion. The Hebrews also had a lot to say about the creation of Earth and stuff CX

[Marco Grimdog 15]

The egg, of course.

Because science.