As the title implies, which came first? My class is doing a debate on this and I would like some fellow escapist views.
Poll: Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
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EDIT:http://www.cracked.com/article_19195_7-simple-questions-you-wont-believe-science-just-answered.html
It's the very first question on the list.
Personally, I believe that the chicken came first, eggs can't run, unless its Sheldon from Garfield and Friends.
EDIT:http://www.cracked.com/article_19195_7-simple-questions-you-wont-believe-science-just-answered.html
It's the very first question on the list.
Personally, I believe that the chicken came first, eggs can't run, unless its Sheldon from Garfield and Friends.
I'll say what my first semester philosophy professor told my class.
Dinosaurs preceded chickens in evolutionary history.
Dinosaurs also hatched from eggs.
So obviously the egg came before the chicken...the real question is, "What came first, the dinosaur or the egg?"
This of course assumes that you accept the theory of evolution as it currently stands and subscribe to a linear understanding of time.
Yeah, I know I dodged the original question, but I had fun regardless. ^_^
Dinosaurs preceded chickens in evolutionary history.
Dinosaurs also hatched from eggs.
So obviously the egg came before the chicken...the real question is, "What came first, the dinosaur or the egg?"
This of course assumes that you accept the theory of evolution as it currently stands and subscribe to a linear understanding of time.
Yeah, I know I dodged the original question, but I had fun regardless. ^_^
Eggs were around for millions of years before anything resembling a chicken evolved. The first proto-chicken hatched from an egg. So the egg very definitely came first.
There are many joke answers that I could put into this. If I may break from that and give a serious enough answer...
I believe that in the strictest nature of things, that which came before the chicken was NOT one until enough evolution occurred and it laid the egg OF the chicken. Ergo, the egg of chicken came from not-quite-deemed-a-chicken, and thus I say the egg.
I believe that in the strictest nature of things, that which came before the chicken was NOT one until enough evolution occurred and it laid the egg OF the chicken. Ergo, the egg of chicken came from not-quite-deemed-a-chicken, and thus I say the egg.
Wouldn't the chicken have to come first because eggs come from chickens. But where did the chicken come from, the egg so the egg would have to come first. But where did the egg come from, the chicken OMG this is too confusing, my brain can't contemplate this so I'm just gonna say the chicken came first.
My point exactly. The egg existed before the chicken and concerning the more narrow perspective, then the egg still came before. Basically at one point, 2 varied forms preceding the current chicken's design got jiggy with it and laid the egg that hatched our modern day chicken.Dags90 said:
XP I think that's right
Obviously the egg as the chicken would have had to hatch from it as well as fish occupying the earth even well before the chicken's grandpa Rex,and to my knowledge and watching Finding Nemo,fish lay eggs.
Evolution is a tricky thing. The egg would have to precede the chicken, though the egg would have had to come from something that wasn't a chicken but that evolved INTO a chicken. Thus, an egg would have had to come first in order for the chicken to come into existance in the first place. Previous Posters have already stated this theory, which I am not really adding anything original, merely just stating the obvious. Though in this case, it isn't obvious if not everyone is understanding it... *watches everyones brain explode* SO MUCH FUN!
The chicken egg preceded the chicken. The chicken egg was laid by an animal that closely resembled, but was not, a chicken. Therefore, the egg came before the chicken.
it really depends on what type of egg. There are three separate questions that could be taken from the 'chicken or egg' phrasing.
1. any chicken vs any egg. the answer in this case is any egg, as egg laying animals were around long before the first chickens.
2. any chicken vs an egg containing a chicken. The answer is technically the egg again, because of how evolution works
3. any chicken vs an egg laid BY a chicken HOLDING a chicken. the answer is the chicken in this case.
1. any chicken vs any egg. the answer in this case is any egg, as egg laying animals were around long before the first chickens.
2. any chicken vs an egg containing a chicken. The answer is technically the egg again, because of how evolution works
3. any chicken vs an egg laid BY a chicken HOLDING a chicken. the answer is the chicken in this case.
Dinosaurs have been laying eggs for centuries before chickens had evolved. Alligators and crocodiles too and they've been around Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer than chickens or, people or, mammoths or other creatures that are older than us but not quite as old as Dinos.remnant_phoenix said:
Exactly, it depends on how you define the releveant 'egg'? Is it any egg? Is it a chicken egg? What is meant by chicken egg? Do you mean it was laid by a chicken, or that it contains a chicken?Arluza said:
OT: Okay, like this fella/lady said, if the egg has to be an egg that contains a chiken and was laid by a chicken, then the answer is chiken. If the egg didn't have to be laid by a chiken (or any animal that evolved after the existence of the chicken), then the answer is egg.