Which came first the egg or the chiken?

Stormprobe · Post by **Stormprobe** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:12 pm

Liek teh title says

rek · Post by **rek** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:14 pm

A cirlce has no beginning

heroo · Post by **heroo** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:16 pm

i came first.

[SD]Twysta · Post by **[SD]Twysta** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:29 pm

interesting...

without chicken there wouldnt be an egg
without an egg there wouldnt be a chicken

answer: god made 1st chicken and it layed an egg

= Chicken

Post by **Ryoko** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:31 pm

Eggs have been a long time part of evolution.

Egg.

timir111 · Post by **timir111** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:03 pm

intresting as 1 of the topic says

no1 can really proof the answer as:

if u vote egg, who layed it
if u vote chicken where did it came from.........

well i think egg as birds can lay it aswell

Rakion · Post by **Rakion** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:09 pm

.rek wrote:
A cirlce has no beginning

like what rek said...

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well i think of the chicken first ... well the egg cant defend itself you know?...

cin · Post by **cin** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:42 pm

Ryoko wrote:Eggs have been a long time part of evolution.

Egg.

^ what he said.
you didnt mention if it was a chicken egg or a some other egg.
i can imagine a dinosaur egg before the chickinz o.O

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:45 pm

chickens evolved from velociraptors

cin · Post by **cin** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:46 pm

Innovacious wrote:chickens evolved from velociraptors

chickenz =/= velociraptors

iGod · Post by **iGod** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:52 pm

Maybe if you narrow it down to chicken egg then the chicken would be the first?

Crumpets · Post by **Crumpets** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:53 pm

If an 'Egg' came first .. it would have to be 'eggs' w/e who cares. Whoever finds the answer to it can come over to my house to get a pat on the back.

brentonsbbe359 · Post by **brentonsbbe359** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:54 pm

heroo wrote:i came first.

your mom came first.

vindicated01 · Post by **vindicated01** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:55 pm

eggs of the chiken or any egg...

i vote for sperm..

chesticles · Post by **chesticles** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:28 pm

i think this picture answers it...

Post by **Ryoko** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:48 pm

Crumpets wrote:Whoever finds the answer to it can come over to my house to get a pat on the back.

and a lil' somethin-somethin

TOloseGT · Post by **TOloseGT** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:58 pm

WaX · Post by **WaX** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:21 pm

two dinosaurs made the chicken,thn it laid an egg

1st= chicken.

XCaosX · Post by **XCaosX** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:41 pm

.rek wrote:
A cirlce has no beginning

hahaha thats an existential question ?!?!?!??!?! ......btw,for me its the egg xD

MrFudge · Post by **MrFudge** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:41 pm

chesticles wrote:i think this picture answers it...

aw thats so sad

Aiyas · Post by **Aiyas** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:06 pm

Chuck Norris.

Seriously, though, I would say:

The egg that contained the first chicken, which was laid by whatever creature the chicken evolved from.

Casey613 · Post by **Casey613** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:46 pm

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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

CNN has nothing better to do apparently, lol

Post by **dom** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:58 pm

Evolution: The animal that the chicken evolved from had to of laid an egg for the mutated chicken to be hatched. For instance: dinosaur -> egg -> dinosaur with feathers -> egg -> dinosaur with feathers and wings -> egg -> dinosaur with feathers, wings, and a beek

Thus, with evolution, the egg came first.

Creationism: According to beliefs, God would of created the chicken which would consequently lay the egg.

Thus, with creationism, the chicken came first.

Deism/Intelligent Design: The designer would of thought of the chicken, and "designed it". The idea of a chicken would of came first. However, due to the clockmaker nature of the theory, the animals would of come about by evolution, and thus the egg would of physically came first.

Thus, with deism/intelligent design, the idea of the chicken came first, but came to physically exist through the egg.

John_Doe · Post by **John_Doe** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:58 pm

it was the rooster.

Casey613 · Post by **Casey613** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:22 pm

dom, please don't make this thread another evolution/creation debate..

Reise · Post by **Reise** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:23 pm

Chicken or the egg IS an evolution/creation debate.

XemnasXD · Post by **XemnasXD** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:26 pm

Reise wrote:Chicken or the egg IS an evolution/creation debate.

i must've missed that somehow..this whole time i just thought it was a riddle about chickens and eggs....

Stormprobe · Post by **Stormprobe** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:20 pm

heres myt hing

Egg= Where did it come from count have just popped out of no where in the middle of teh night.

Chiken= had to come from a eggg cause it would be pretty freaky if a t rex popped a cgicken out of its ass. V.V

Barotix · Post by **Barotix** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:29 pm

Stormprobe wrote:heres myt hing

Egg= Where did it come from count have just popped out of no where in the middle of teh night.

Chiken= had to come from a eggg cause it would be pretty freaky if a t rex popped a cgicken out of its ass. V.V

w - t -f
the hard shell egg, from which chickens come from, was developed by reptiles who evolved from amphibians who used soft eggs. inorder to protect ones offspring on land the hard shell egg was developed. ingenious little device.

refer 2 what dom wrote pls, hes got it down on the ball

Isis · Post by **Isis** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:38 pm

To much for my little mind to think about it

Now I'm confused