Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

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There is an exact source and factual answer that most people overlook.While the question is intresting philisophically, its a moot question with an answer.Can you find it?

Answer 1

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Close scrutiny does not remove the fact that all answers to this question are speculation that rely on some system of methodical cognition.
Whether it is deemed rational or irrational is a matter of subjectivity.
The nature of the question as a philosophical inquiry is that it reveals something about human nature.
The need to have information, so as to satisfy the egos desire for control.

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common sense

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All the answers were good in their own right.The Bible (Torah in Hebrew) in the first book explains how G-D created animals before man eggs comming later, but obviously this answer is not going to suit everybody, so the debate goes further.Thanks

Answer 2

The egg - it would hold the mutation which would be the chicken - but this egg with it's mutation would have been laid by pheasant perhaps - some 100,000 years ago.

But actually there is no "chicken" as the species is forever changing and evolving into something else.

Answer 3

Well coming from a non religious background I would say the egg come first because it is evolution. Anyone who study evolution would know tiny cell of eukaryote and prokaryote led to the complicated structure of multicellular( including human ) we know today.

Answer 4

Thier were dinosors that had eggs along time befor there where chickens.

Answer 5

Morpheus has it right. The first chicken was the genetic mutation or blending of it's parents that weren't necessarily Chickens. Maybe creationism would say the Chicken - but I can't answer in that vein, I am not knowledgeable enough of scripture.

Answer 6

Why are you guys saying that according to evolution the egg came first?

Wouldn't the necessary traits for a bird to be a chicken must had resulted from that bird adapting to some natural demand.

Once that bird, or whatever it was before it became a chicken, adapted to its proper environment, that was the point when it became a chicken, only then it passed its traits along through the egg.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, philosophically I think this question is a paralogism. There are fallacies in reasoning in every attempt to argue and prove the real answer.

Answer 7

In my opinion the Chicken came first because God created the animals and each animal had a mate. The two animals had to mate and then hence came the egg. Just like an adult came before a child. He created Adam as a man not a child as he did all of his animals too. That's just my opinion of it though. My source would be practically any type of Bible you can find and comprehend.