Chicken or the egg

[mattymatt123]

Which came first?

[Pineapple66]

The Egg

[mattymatt123]

where did it come from

[WaldoMcFroog]

Something that was almost, but not quite a chicken.

[chakka35]

The chicken.

A pre-chicken which was almost a chicken laid an egg containing the last gene mutations that would make a chicken. From that pre-chicken's egg came a chicken which then laid the first chicken's egg. So the sequence was:

Pre-chicken - pre-chicken's egg - chicken - chicken's egg.

[idly_enjoys]

Yes but the pre-chicken's egg came first, it is still the egg.

[Quizmonster]

Most scientists believe that birds developed from reptiles. Since most reptiles to this day reproduce by laying eggs, it's rational to assume that the first bird-like creature came from an egg, too. (Genetic material remains constant throughout life, so the first creature that evolved into what we would consider to be a bird must have originally existed as an embryo inside an egg.) It would then have laid eggs and - over millions of years, perhaps - birds as we know them slowly developed and produced different species. The present-day chicken is one of these, but - 'way back when - its great-great-grand-daddy almost certainly came from an egg.
The egg pre-dated the bird, if you believe in evolution. Of course, fundamentalist believers in the Bible will say that God created all the creatures as creatures. In that case, the bird pre-dated the egg. Take your pick!

[kwicky]

The same question could apply to Mother and Baby and we know it would be incapable of rearing itself.

[Eurox]

Dinosaurs laid eggs, they came before chickens so obviously the egg. The animals all evolved, whereas the egg remained pretty much the same

[ll_billym]

It's chicken in my dictionary.

[chakka35]

The question has meaning only if it is "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken's egg?"

If we're talking about any old egg then there is no puzzle: everyone knows that eggs in general existed before chickens.

I stick to my logic.

[Pineapple66]

Where did that Chicken come from?

[chakka35]

Pineapple, I have answered that. Please read my first post again.

[meredith101]

this is kind of a chicken and egg problem.

[mibn2cweus]

An eggspert answer for an eggsasperating question

Hopefully this debate can now finally be laid to rest . . . or roost.

[TTG]

A Chicken and Egg are in bed together. The Egg is leaning back with a contented look on its face. The Chicken is sitting up, arms folder, looking very frustrated, turns to the Egg and says "Well I think we answered that question!!"

Sorry.

[soozmac]

The c*ck.

(sorry)