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I've been wondering for a very very very very long time now, what came first, the chicken or the egg? does anyone know the answer, or got any ideas?
 
Haha sammichael your posts are truly awesome! :D

I reckon the chicken, as it must have evolved from something, right? For those of you who are creationists, it says in the Bible that God put animals on the earth for Adam to name and look after, so surely the chicken would have been first and not the egg!

Just my thoughts on this ;)
 
i think it was the egg and then the chicken because the chicken had to come from somewhere and they do come from eggs :)
 
Chicken came first. Just like Adam wasnt created as a baby, neither was Eve. So by the fact that it is documented that they werent created as infants, then the egg wouldnt have come first. Who would sit on the egg and keep it warm til the chick hatched?
 
Some creature had sex with another creature and laid an egg that hatched into a chicken.
 
Chicken and egg debate unscrambled

Egg came first, 'eggsperts' agree

LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.
Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.
Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.
Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.
The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.
"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."
The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.
Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.
He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.
"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.
"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."
Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.
He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."
The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD.
 
I say it was the chicken that came first. Because of the fact that today's species of birds is the modern day version of the dinosaurs. And science has prooven that the birds evolved from the dinosaurs. Because the first bird was the Archaeopteryx. Which had lived 145 million years ago. And in the last decade several dinosaurs were found to have feathers on them.
 
poefiend said:
Chicken and egg debate unscrambled

Egg came first, 'eggsperts' agree

LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.
Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.
Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.
Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.
The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.
"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."
The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.
Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.
He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.
"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.
"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."
Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.
He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."
The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD.
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I think they are right. Because I used to think it was the chicken that came first.
 
Evolution:smilerolleyes:

Still waiting for the 'WHATS THE MEANING OF LIFE' thread! :tease:
 
The egg. The chicken had to hatch from something. It didn't just appear randomly. Something gave birth to it, laid an egg, out came the first ever chicken. Or what we know now as the modern day chicken.
 
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