What came first?

[C_ris]

What came first? The Chicken or the Egg? :evil:

[cassie]

the chicken of course

click me for proof (http://hometown.aol.com/rjsavannah/images/chicken-or-egg.jpg)
:D

[Mayhem]

Technically speaking it was the chicken. If all life came from single celled organisims that reproduced by dividing themselves and the chicken came from them, then the chicken was first and the egg second.

[Dux]

Depends on whether you mean the egg or the "chicken egg"? To have a "chicken egg" you first must have a chicken. if you mean any old egg, then I think there were things that came before chickens so their eggs came first.

:evil:

[Beisla]

The chicken came first. What Plat said.

[Bobbsy]

Actually, on a typical morning my first mug of tea (or coffee if I'm in THAT mood) better come first before you even THINK of trying to get me to eat some chicken or an egg.

Bobbsy

[Milo]

The dinosaur ;) ;)

[-H-]

in the race between the chicken and the egg ... the person to arrive at the finish line first was in fact the judge ;) the PMD :D

after all ... every race needs adjudication :devil:

[Wolfegar]

No, actually Who's on first, What's on second and I Don't Know is on third....

[AnnMarie]

Technically speaking it was the chicken. If all life came from single celled organisims that reproduced by dividing themselves and the chicken came from them, then the chicken was first and the egg second.


Plat... an egg starts as a single cell that divides itself to form a diversity of multi-celled organisms (organs)

So... it was obviously the PDM!

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

Chicken. You can't have an egg without having two chickens before it to create the egg, and I doubt a little bitty chick would survive on its own for very long. And since God made Adam and Eve in their adult form, I'd assume that all other animal life was originally made fully grown.

[AnnMarie]

Chicken. You can't have an egg without having two chickens before it to create the egg, and I doubt a little bitty chick would survive on its own for very long. And since God made Adam and Eve in their adult form, I'd assume that all other animal life was originally made fully grown.


That answer works for those of you who believe that all life started in the Garden of Eden...I see that as just Jahovah's little playground.

[Milo]

"On the fifth day God made a great pool of boiling acids...." :roll: :D

[carmella]

In Kansas it is all a theory.

[S'amm]

Depends on whether you mean the egg or the "chicken egg"? To have a "chicken egg" you first must have a chicken. if you mean any old egg, then I think there were things that came before chickens so their eggs came first.

:evil:

Does green pond slime have eggs.... ?

S'amm

[Dawn]

Chicken. You can't have an egg without having two chickens before it to create the egg, and I doubt a little bitty chick would survive on its own for very long. And since God made Adam and Eve in their adult form, I'd assume that all other animal life was originally made fully grown.

Sounds good to me, Bronze-Dragonrider. :ok: I voted for Chicken, as well.

[dae]

it was the PMD who wanted to have eggs so it made the eggs then decided to have chicken so it made a chicken :D

[Faren]

I voted chicken...but after reading all these replies I have a headache so I don't think I'll explain my reasoning. :banghead:

[Lady Faizah]

I voted egg.

I think some kind of proto-chicken laid the first egg, which then evolved into a chicken.

[C_ris]

i think it was the chicken. A chicken must lay a chicken egg. otherwise it isnt a chicken egg!

[Lady Faizah]

i think it was the chicken. A chicken must lay a chicken egg. otherwise it isnt a chicken egg!So, even if a chicken hatches from the egg, if it wasn't laid by a chicken, it wasn't a chicken egg?

[Milo]

i think it was the chicken. A chicken must lay a chicken egg. otherwise it isnt a chicken egg!
It was an archeaptryx (sp, I know) egg. ;)

[C_ris]

So, even if a chicken hatches from the egg, if it wasn't laid by a chicken, it wasn't a chicken egg?
nope.

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

hmm, if it was laid by a chicken, wouldn't that be a chicken's egg then? if I chicken hatched from an egg that wasn't laid by a chicken, then it's a chicken egg. Wow, I've been hearing chicken so often it's starting to sound weird now

[Sandi]

Bobbsy stole my answer (or at least the idea of it)

Egg for breakfast, chicken for dinner, but the coffee most definitely must come first!

[Jeffrey555]

The egg.

The fossil record is clear. There were eggs of all sorts for millions of years before there were any chickens.

[Mayhem]

It was an archeaptryx (sp, I know) egg. ;)
Archaeopteryx.

[Hans]

As we are all descended from a puddle of genes, a quackmire of DNA... definitely the egg! ;)

[Lady Arwyn]

The egg. Whatever laid the egg that hatched the first chicken wasn't a chicken. The mutated individual within the egg was genetically a chicken but it wasn't even an embroyo (blastocyst?) yet so it doesn't count.

An egg containing a chicken is therefore a chicken egg. Therefore from the first chicken egg then hatched the first chicken.

[Kath]

The egg. Whatever laid the egg that hatched the first chicken wasn't a chicken. The mutated individual within the egg was genetically a chicken but it wasn't even an embroyo (blastocyst?) yet so it doesn't count.

An egg containing a chicken is therefore a chicken egg. Therefore from the first chicken egg then hatched the first chicken.

What she said.

But the question isn't necessarily about chicken eggs anyway... eggs came before chickens!

[Arwyn, how did you happen across this oldie? Following the slurp-spiders?]

[C_ris]

The egg. Whatever laid the egg that hatched the first chicken wasn't a chicken. The mutated individual within the egg was genetically a chicken but it wasn't even an embroyo (blastocyst?) yet so it doesn't count.

An egg containing a chicken is therefore a chicken egg. Therefore from the first chicken egg then hatched the first chicken.

But is it a chicken egg unless it is lain by a chicken?

[Kath]

That doesn't make sense.

If all eggs are chicken eggs unless laid by chickens, then chickens don't lay chicken eggs.

Fix your logic, C_ris!!!

[C_ris]

Let's rephrase:

If a chicken hatches from an egg, but the egg was not laid by a chicken, then was it a chicken egg?

[elfycat]

I voted egg.

I think some kind of proto-chicken laid the first egg, which then evolved into a chicken.

That's where I voted.

The question is the chicken or the egg, it doesn't specify the egg type.

So with evolution at what point does a near chicken type creature lay the official 1st egg for the new species. And really who cares? I bet the parent tasted good roasted with herbs!

[Kath]

Everything tastes good roasted with herbs!

Mmmmm.... dino-steaks!

[Paulita]

Are we talking chicken eggs or eggs in general?

Do PMD's have eggs?

What it about chickens and eggs anyway?

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

the chicken of course

click me for proof (http://hometown.aol.com/rjsavannah/images/chicken-or-egg.jpg)
:D

Oh dear... :rofl2:

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

:chicken2:

[Lady Wolf]

Chicken. You can't have an egg without having two chickens before it to create the egg, and I doubt a little bitty chick would survive on its own for very long.

Any female chicken can produce eggs. So you only need one chicken, however, to get a fertile egg you need both a male & female chicken.



Question - if you are referring to eggs in general, rather than just chicken eggs - surely the egg came first as an egg is required for sexual reproduction, bird, mammals, dinosaurs etc.... whatever chickens eventually evolved from had to reproduce somehow.:ketchup:

[Ghyle]

I said egg.

Chickens came from birds, birds from dinos: there were eggs around long before chickens.

[Dragongirl]

After watching a rather interesting video in Biology I'm just going to say that a bunch of atoms and what not got together, had a party, got mad raving drunk and thought, "Hey, let's all make this!"

Hence the first chicken/s. They laid the first egg not long after. Which hatched another chicken and so on...

:whistle:

[Paulita]

After watching a rather interesting video in Biology I'm just going to say that a bunch of atoms and what not got together, had a party, got mad raving drunk and thought, "Hey, let's all make this!"

Hence the first chicken/s. They laid the first egg not long after. Which hatched another chicken and so on...

:whistle:

That only explains the strangeness of atoms not why the egg and chicken keep getting questioned.

Does anyone have a time machine so we can find out?

[Kugai]

Egg.

Though I suppose without the Chicken, there can't be an Egg, but wothout an Egg, there can't be a Chicken .........

:erm: :blink: :confused:

Fageddaboudit!

[Dux]

Okay - who bumped this? :yeah:

[Kugai]

Okay - who bumped this? :yeah:

*Scrolls Back*

Not Telling!

:D ;)

[Miss K]

We once had this as a question in our Agriculture test.

Can't remember what the right answer was (according to the teacher of course!)

I voted Egg - Don't know why I just did! :whee:

[Cherlyn]

I believe everyone here knows my answer and why I voted that way.

[Paulita]

Okay - who bumped this? :yeah:

Not me this time.

[Bamy]

I voted egg.

I think some kind of proto-chicken laid the first egg, which then evolved into a chicken.Exactly what I was going to say. An almost chicken like bird laid the egg that became the first chicken - it's all in the genes and mutation of such. But eggs were around for millions of years before chickens appeared.

[Bamy]

i think it was the chicken. A chicken must lay a chicken egg. otherwise it isnt a chicken egg!
The logic doesn't follow...evolution shows that gees can mutate from generation to generation. Why not a mutation in a similar secies to produce the chicken?
The egg.

The fossil record is clear. There were eggs of all sorts for millions of years before there were any chickens.
Ah! a man of my own thinking :D
The egg. Whatever laid the egg that hatched the first chicken wasn't a chicken. The mutated individual within the egg was genetically a chicken but it wasn't even an embroyo (blastocyst?) yet so it doesn't count.

An egg containing a chicken is therefore a chicken egg. Therefore from the first chicken egg then hatched the first chicken.Same as my arguement but better expressed :D

[Bane]

I said PMD, because even before eggs and dinos and pond scum, there were purple monkey dishwashers!

[JayEgo]

Both Chicken & egg were placed here by the aliens that the government are hiding from us!

Jayson

[Paulita]

Can anyone remember asking the chicken and the egg for their opinion?

[JayEgo]

Can anyone remember asking the chicken and the egg for their opinion?*tap tap*

*cluck cluck*

Well, that settles that!

Jayson

[Paulita]

Well Jayego what is the answer?

[JayEgo]

:erm:

He only asked them... he doesn't speak chicken or Egg!

Ask Apo, she might know!

Alter

[Paulita]

You mean Jayson is not as intelligent as a chicken?

I'm sure you have better things to do Alter than to ask questions to chickens and eggs unlike Jayson.