What came first The chicken or The egg ??

[Mousie]

Im sure veryone has asked themselves This question at some point or another

Well i say the Chicken came first

[Amray The II]

I have a tougher one for you.

What came first? God or man?

[rikumi]

Im sure veryone has asked themselves This question at some point or another

Well i say the Chicken came first

I say neither. I'd say the chicken went into the egg that came first =^w^=b

I have a tougher one for you.

What came first? God or man?

Some believe it is God, but I think men came first =w=~o
The reason? God is something human utterly "created" using belief. So in came man, and then God.

[Drifter Uk]

im gonna go with the egg
dinosaurs had eggs
theyre older than chickens
therefore the egg came first

[Happi Giraffe!]

im gonna go with the egg
dinosaurs had eggs
theyre older than chickens
therefore the egg came first

yeah. it never tells what kind of egg it was...

[SSDynamite]

The egg. That's what the chicken came out of.
It's parents were two birds slightly different from what we call chickens.

That's the explanation I'm happy with anyway.

[dream magician]

I'll go with the egg, with the same reason that chickens were eggs before they ever learn to walk...

[Mousie]

I have a tougher one for you.

What came first? God or man?

well that might constitute a religeous argument so id rather not go there :S

[OminousCloud]

You know, you made this exact same thread on the same day in 2005...

I'm pretty sure there was also another thread where I answered this question or maybe it was just a discussion I had with Bean Bandit...

The egg came first, following the theory of evolution you have two chicken like parents who have offspring which have a different gene/genes that make them the first chickens.

[Mousie]

no ways ... in 2005 on the same day ?

[sataned]

i say a Highly Advanced Brilliant Species that had Knowledge of Genetic Engineering came first... then 2 eggs 1 male 1 female.... and after much Trial and Error... THEy finally got it right! the exact little feathered creature that tastes like everything that doesnt taste like anything...

[Brewmaster]

I put my money on the chicken.It gave the egg.How did the chicken came?Well some unnatural force threw it from another dimension trough a black hole and the chicken fell onto Earth thus resulting in massive egg laying process.

[Dxon]

The question is: what came first: Egg laying fish or the egg which came out an egg laying fish. The fish became the chicken. So it gradually happened. Which means the egg was first. But was first. Egg laying fish. Or the eggs of the fish?

[Amray The II]

This question is a lot like asking "What came first? The mother or the child?" Obviously the mother did. If we look at the story of Adam and Eve it was about God creating man and woman out of nothing, without their being something to give birth to them other than God himself. Therefore I believe that the chikcen came first. God made the chicken, the chicken made the egg. That is my non-scientific answer.

well that might constitute a religeous argument so id rather not go there :S

Alas, that it why it is such a hard question to answer to.

[drm0ney]

The egg came first, following the theory of evolution you have two chicken like parents who have offspring which have a different gene/genes that make them the first chickens.

My thoughts exactly.

You can't change what it is, if it isn't a chicken, it's never gonna be one, but it's offspring can have different enough traits that make it what we call a chicken.

[Sanosuke23]

The egg. That's what the chicken came out of.
It's parents were two birds slightly different from what we call chickens.

That's the explanation I'm happy with anyway.

SSD gets the credit for having the right answer first, sorry Mini.

It looks like the Silver Snakes are going to the Temple!

[Evockzi]

Egg, since I believe in evolution, so at one point or another something from a birds Egg resembled a chicken.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

You know, I always sort of feel bad for these questions that become repeated over and over again until they have lost all meaning.

This question was originally put forth by philosophers who wondered about the origin of life before evolution was known about. From that context, the question makes some sense. Were Chickens created (or came into being) as eggs, or full grown chickens? Makes some sense.

Of course, now after Evolution has been both discovered and proved true, we can put this question to rest- the jungle fowl that were domesticated into chickens laid eggs. Ergo, no matter at what point you define the animal to be chicken and not jungle fowl, you are left with an egg that hatches into a chicken.

Now can we all, as a people, move on the the question about the Tree falling in an empty forest? It at least still has some meaning, not that anyone tries to grasp it.

[Amray The II]

Now can we all, as a people, move on the the question about the Tree falling in an empty forest? It at least still has some meaning, not that anyone tries to grasp it.

The sound is made. Just because their is no person in the specified location to hear the tree falling does not at all mean the sound did not still exist. The tree has fell, so the sound was made. No one did hear it so in a way it was not a sound at all, but the noise that it makes still did exist at that moment when it clashed with the ground.

[smile1010]

It's like asking, "what came frist, the adult or the baby/fetus?" I would think a chicken came first. God made a male and a female and later they reproduced. So I'd think he'd do the same with animals.

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I'm not saying it's a wrong answer, but, how would the egg have received warmth and once hatch, where would it have found nutrition and the sort?

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

The sound is made. Just because their is no person in the specified location to hear the tree falling does not at all mean the sound did not still exist. The tree has fell, so the sound was made. No one did hear it so in a way it was not a sound at all, but the noise that it makes still did exist at that moment when it clashed with the ground.

See, that's what I'm talking about. Very few people understand the philosophical nature of that question, and assume that it is question of causality, like the Chicken and the Egg.

To rephrase the question: If an event happens, and no one observes it, can it be considered an event? Your answer then would depend on whether or not you think an objective reality exists, and what value you'd give an event that effects no one even assuming an objective reality. I would say that the sound a tree that falls in an empty forest makes is irrelevant, and might as well not exist. It is only through observation that an event has meaning.

I'm not saying it's a wrong answer, but, how would the egg have received warmth and once hatch, where would it have found nutrition and the sort?

Protip: The jungle fowl that were domesticated into chickens would have taken care of their young, because the change was gradual. That's what evolution is. Gradual.

Also, Chickens were the result of selective breeding, so even if the Jungle fowl for some reason refused to take care of their young that resembled them in almost every way, there would still be humans around to do it.

[Diocletian]

The egg fell from the sky and ta-dah,there it is.
THERE HAD TO BE AN EMBRYO!
How come no one has mentioned evolution.Maybe eggs are the stationairy creature,but with evolution they turned into chicks.

[Perpetual Specter]

The egg. That's what the chicken came out of.
It's parents were two birds slightly different from what we call chickens.

That's the explanation I'm happy with anyway.

^---This pretty much explains it all right here. It has to do with evolution of animals and in this case, two birds, both of which probably looked somewhat like a chicken, made an egg and out of the egg came a chicken pretty much.

[Mayonnaise-Senpai]

How are you going to get the egg if you don't have the chicken?
Ahhh! X) got you on that one.

I think the chicken came before the egg.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

How are you going to get the egg if you don't have the chicken?
Ahhh! X) got you on that one.

I think the chicken came before the egg.

Birds lay eggs. It's not an intrinsic property of Chickens.