It has been answered: The chicken came first!

[hobo_welf]

Dude. They are naming super computers human names! Does anyone think that HECToR is not a computer you want to meet in a dark alley?

 

[Druyn]

It is as I have long suspected. However, at some point there was a chicken who was the first genetically complete modern chicken and he/she had to have come out of an egg birthed from a non-chicken. Then it becomes a matter of semantics: is it a chicken egg that it came out of? or a non-chicken egg?

Its the lovely wuestion of weather a chicken is something that comes out of a chicken egg, or whether a chicken egg is something that is laid by a chicken?

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

surely fo a chicken to exist it must have evolved from something else, so it cam from that creatures egg, which technically was the first chickes egg, before the chicken existed

 

[Macgyvercas]

The answer is the same no matter if you are a creationist or an evolutionist.

Creationist: It wouldn't make sense for God to create the egg first if there was nothing to hatch it. Ergo, the Chicken came first.

Evolutionist: Chickens evolved from an earlier chicken-like creature. The first chicken was an evolution of this creature, being hatched from one of it's eggs. The first chicken then laid the first egg. Ergo, the chicken came first.

Done, and done.

 

[yankeefan19]

The chicken came from somewhere, thus the egg

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Wait. Freeman was part of the science team...Oh no. WE HAVE UTTERED FORTH THE GREEN APOCALYPSE! AGGGGGGHHHHHHH

The moral is: Never trust freeman on a science team. You'll get head crabs

 

[PatrickXD]

I thought it came from a chicken like animal, it was a mutation that made it a chicken and not whatever the other thing was. Evolution is your friend =D

 

[Mechsoap]

actueally a microorganism was first then later developed to a chicken who then layed a egg, so yes, the chicken is first

 

[Amphoteric]

This doesn't prove anything, how do you know the chicken protein came before the chicken egg protein.

 

[xitel]

The egg came first. Evolutionarily speaking, two parent species that were one mutation away from what is called a chicken today gave birth to the first chicken, which was born from an egg. Thus, the chicken was a chicken inside the egg, but it was not a grown chicken. Thus, the egg came first. Simple genetics.

 

[Tele-screen]

It is as I have long suspected. However, at some point there was a chicken who was the first genetically complete modern chicken and he/she had to have come out of an egg birthed from a non-chicken. Then it becomes a matter of semantics: is it a chicken egg that it came out of? or a non-chicken egg?

Its the lovely wuestion of weather a chicken is something that comes out of a chicken egg, or whether a chicken egg is something that is laid by a chicken?

I think you grasp perfectly my line of questioning.

 

[T-Bone24]

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

Well then, I don't think you quite understand how evolution works. The egg would have been layed by something that is nearly a chicken and the offspring would be a mutation that is a chicken. That chicken then passes on its genes and more chickens are made, and eventually the previous species dies out.

Therefore, the egg comes first.

 

[Ertol]

Lies...God said "Man I'm hungry" and so he created the egg to have with his bacon.

 

[Flutterbrave]

The question we should all be asking is how the hell Warwick University got all the way to Edinburgh.

 

[Phoenixlight]

For there to be a chicked there had to be an egg so the egg still came first.

 

[gl1koz3]

This is not that hard. An egg just had to be laid by something that can... lay eggs. Lol.

 

[automatron]

This is what scientists are researching?

 

[Nukey]

Both the chicken and the chicken egg came at the exact same time.

Since DNA can be modified only before birth, a mutation must have taken place at conception or within an egg such that an animal similar to a chicken, but not a chicken, laid the first chicken egg. In this light, both the egg and the chicken evolved simultaneously from birds that were not chickens and did not lay chicken eggs but gradually became more and more like chickens over time.