It has been answered: The chicken came first!

[bloodrayne626]

This is worthy of scientific research why?

If you're the first person to prove it, God gives you a corvette filled with hookers.

Virgin hookers.

I wish to post in the hopes of obtaining this virgin-filled corvette.
Obviously, the egg came first. Because the chicken was begot from the egg, doesn't it follow that the egg that beget the chicken was thus a CHICKEN egg, because that which came from the egg was a chicken.

 

[therealsomeguy]

screw you science i say the eggplant came first, then the egg, then the chicken... me:1, Science:0

 

[Kortney]

Do you want to hear an ever better question?

Why the fuck were these scientists faffing about with this nonsense? I'm guessing they are fairly intelligent so why don't they work on something useful?

Ugh.

I hope they weren't paid for this.

 

[Holyeskimo]

An animal that laid eggs eventually evolved into a chicken. I thought that was obvious. What am I missing here?

the mindset that the chicken came first
but still the fact that it was said that the chicken was from the same evolution tree as the t-rex kinda says that it would be hatched from something that was becoming the chicken.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

Surely an egg containing what is now known as a chicken came out of something very similar to but not quite a chicken. Hence the egg came first. That's what I always thought, seemed obvious.

I agree with this.

It comes down, as already mentioned, to whether an egg with an embryonic chicken in it that was laid by a pheasant is a chicken egg or a pheasant egg.

 

[Daffy F]

The egg came first.

Animals laid eggs long before chickens existed.

Your point is moot.

I think God created the Chicken, and it then laid the egg.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Surely an egg containing what is now known as a chicken came out of something very similar to but not quite a chicken. Hence the egg came first. That's what I always thought, seemed obvious.

Yes, exactly. If you subscribe to the theory of evolution, which I do, the egg came first. If you believe in [insert religion here], the chicken came first. I always thought it was obvious too.

 

[kurupt87]

The egg surely came first?

Something that is, definably, not a chicken lays an egg that hatches into what is, definably, a chicken.

This news item doesn't say anything apart from the blindingly obvious, a parent is needed to lay an egg. That, I don't think, has ever been in doubt.

 

[Poofs]

i always thought evolution came first
then chicken
then egg
then more chickens
then more eggs

 

[Xelt]

A weird fish thing evolved one day and layed an egg. This egg contained a chicken. The weird-fish thing egg came first -> Chicken -> Chicken egg -> More chickens.
Chicken came first.

 

[Woodsey]

The egg came first.

Animals laid eggs long before chickens existed.

Your point is moot.

I think God created the Chicken, and it then laid the egg.

Are you being serious?

OT: Surely a species that was already laying eggs eventually evolved into what is now a chicken, and then said chickens continued to lay eggs. Birds are close relatives of dinosaurs, are they not?

 

[JLML]

Well, obviously the chicken/hen/whatever came before "chicken-eggs" but eggs in general came before that. Reptilians laid eggs millions of years before there even were chickens after all xD

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Freeman, who worked on HECToR with counterparts at Edinburgh's Warwick University...

They got the first name wrong.

So that's why he was so bad at communicating!

 

[El Poncho]

Who would think a thread about whether a chicken or egg came first would annoy me so much? sigh.

 

[Daffy F]

The egg came first.

Animals laid eggs long before chickens existed.

Your point is moot.

I think God created the Chicken, and it then laid the egg.

Are you being serious?

OT: Surely a species that was already laying eggs eventually evolved into what is now a chicken, and then said chickens continued to lay eggs. Birds are close relatives of dinosaurs, are they not?

Quite serious, yes. I trust you are aware that the proverb refers to chicken eggs? Obviously not eggs in general. Otherwise this question would have been answered many years ago, when people first discovered that dinosaurs laid eggs. It's a proverb, nothing more.

 

[PurpleSky]

The egg came first.

Animals laid eggs long before chickens existed.

Your point is moot.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

They make no mention of whether dinosaurs, the evolutionary ancestors of all birds, produce this protein or not, so it's very shortsighted to call the riddle 'solved'.

Also, the Metro is a free newspaper that is available on buses and trains, so I tend to doubt the depth of their stories.

 

[Folio]

The human came first before the foetus... what?

What I really want to know: What IS the sound of one hand clapping?

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I guess that one was too easy. I expected Bart Simpson's reaction in the episode where he learns how to play golf. So didn't expect a video of an a-synchronised hand-clap beat.

I don't want to ask 'If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around, does it make a sound?' Because I get the most retarded answers without anyone listening to what I have to say to it.

(To make it short, there is no answer, it's a lesson. You need one to listen for the other to communicate. So there is no one without the other, no Yin without Yang. Get it?)

Actually Koans(which is what the teaching riddles are called) are more meant to teach a person to think laterally, to think in a different way, etc.

Wow, I never knew. Thanks! It seems it succeeded to do so. I wonder if there are more Koans than 'the hand', 'the tree', 'the egg' (well, scrap that one.) or 'The immobile object against and unstoppable force.'

 

[CaptainCrunch]

I love it when hard science tries to tackle metaphysical issues. Next, they'll figure out what *direction* time is flowing, and whether or not existence causes reality.