15 replies to this topic

[Sir Rebrl]

I already have a scientifically sound reasoning of which came first, but I want to know what you all think.

And no crap about dinosaur eggs being first. We're talking chicken eggs here.

[The Warrior]

Chicken.

Something had to lay the egg.

[onbekende]

howmuch does a chicken have to alter for it not being called a chicken anymore, also, does that mean that the not more called animal can still lay a chicken egg?

[Akatsuki]

Chicken. Research showed that already I guess.

[Sir Rebrl]

The egg came first.

Evolution happens between generations, in the differences between the parents and the offspring. Regardless of at which point the chicken was not quite a chicken, at some point it was almost a chicken and it laid an egg from which hatched a chicken, making it a chicken egg.

[Caesar Phil]

Not sure but they both sound delicious

[Rhizoctonia]

Egg totally.

[Ernie]

It can only be the egg

[Edward]

Chicken

[Robert2424]

Its the chicken.

 

The way I look at it, God made the Chicken, and then the Chicken laid the egg. No need to think to hard about this one.

[AngelCruzdelaSant]

But how about those of us that are not theistic ?

[turtwig9]

I've always gone with the egg.

 

Because what is the first chicken would be dependant on when we evolutionarily classify it as a chicken, therefore that particular individual came from the first chicken egg. But that also means the first chicken egg was laid by a non-chicken. *mindblown*

[Johnathan Chaos]

Whether theist or not, you have ot admit evolution does exist.  All things evolve in some ways.  New creatures are appearing from old ones all the time.

 

So, I tend to think the Turtwig is correct in the thinking the first chicken egg had to come from a nonchicken, so I'd have to say the egg came first.

[onbekende]

if we speak purely genetical, the first was a chicken. For a chicken can lay a chicken egg but an animal can't lay a chicken egg as its genetics aren't that of a chicken. IN the egg is a chicken, but the egg itself is made by the hen and not the seed within.

 

metaphorically its the egg, as the genetic change needed to produce a "chicken" happens at the fertalization of the egg itself, so a to say that the egg produced gives sanctuary to a chicken but the egg itself isn't.

 

With language again the chicken is first, as a chicken egg can only come from a chicken. cause and effect play here. Claiming an egg to be a chicken egg but not comming from a chicken will make any language teacher cringe.

 

The biggest thing is offcourse, what does one classify as a chicken and what as a chicken egg, egg's were present way before chickens were. As such the question "chicken or egg?" has the obvious "egg" answer, but "chicken or chicken egg?" has "chicken" as answer.

[Duderonomy]

The real question is which tastes better: a groundbound bug-eater or its menstruation?

[Reaper808]

Egg

 

cause its take less effort to type that answer.