There is the age old question which came first the chicken or the egg? I was just wondering if I sould insane as I believe it stands for which is it god or evolution. I mean think about it...if you pick the chicken it would be that you belived in god as the chicken just appeared out of no where and if you picked the egg it would be evolution because the egg has to evolve into a chicken What do you think?
Possibly, but personally I tend to think it reasonable enough to believe that God and science can both fit in perfectly well with each other. Although I'm still making my mind up regarding God and co. I don't see what's wrong, at least from a theoretical perspective, with God using evolution as a tool for creation. On a somewhat different note the answer is the egg, considering reptiles were laying them long before the chicken ever arrived.
eggs have always been eggs (well, not since amoeba days of course) but chickens at some stage weren't what we'd call chickens... if you believe in evolution; so I think your analysis is right, Alycia.
Obviously it means 'chicken's egg' otherwise there would be no point in the question as a riddle. In which case the answer is 'the chicken' . My reasoning is:
In the course of evolution a pre-chicken lays an egg which contains that final random mutation, the last of a series, which ensures that the outcome of that egg will not be able to mate with the parent species. So it will, by defintion, be a new species which we call 'chicken' . It then produces the first chicken's egg. So the sequence is:
Pre-chicken- pre-chicken's egg- chicken- chickens egg.
But if the chicken mutated over the evolutional time scale as it did in the past then it couldnt be called a chicken. So the chicken and egg theory would be scrambled.