Poll: The Chicken or The Egg

[TheTechnomancer]

The best answer was given by Luna Lovegood, "A circle has no beginning".

And was shamefully stolen from Issac Asimov's foundation saga.

 

[Emurlahn]

Dinos and fish (and whatnot)laid eggs long before the first chicken.

 

[Araksardet]

The egg. I mean, the egg is the first stage of a chicken's existence, so... Actually, I guess that means they both came at the same time. But yeah, the egg.

 

[Lionsfan]

I'm pretty sure this was actually answered, don't remember which one it was though.....I think it was the Chicken

 

[AlAaraaf74]

It was the egg, for it had the fetus of the newly evolved chicken.

 

[Cousin_IT]

I don't know which came first, but I know the egg looked much more satisfied than the chicken.

 

[Pinkamena]

Seriously? Ok, so where is the option to vote "Neither, it's been a long development from single-celled organisms, eggs and "chickens" have existed since the dawn of life" Or something like that.

 

[GodofCider]

Seriously? Ok, so where is the option to vote "Neither, it's been a long development from single-celled organisms, eggs and "chickens" have existed since the dawn of life" Or something like that.

Chicken...metaphorically speaking.

Biological organisms developed prior to eggs.

 

[PureChaos]

i think it was the egg as chickens evolved from egg laying lizards

 

[alrekr]

I've got a better question:

What came first - time; or matter?

Well seeing as time may be a human construct it would be matter. Also how can time pass without the presence of matter; without matter time cannot be measured and thus can be argues to not exist

 

[White_Lama]

Gonna go with the lame answer of egg, since you know dinosaurs and stuff.

 

[Peter Whitmore]

This reminds me of a joke...

A chicken and an egg are laying in bed. The egg looks upset and the chicken, happily smoking a cigarette, says, "I guess we answered THAT question!"

 

[robert022614]

I say the egg because the first chicken ever was probably hatched from an egg of its relative one step back on the evolutionary chain.

 

[GeorgW]

Dinosaur eggs have been around a hell of a lot longer than chickens, so eggs.

 

[xdom125x]

How is this even a question?
The egg came first. There is this process called evolution where... well long story short: something that looked nearly identical to a chicken laid an egg and from that egg came the first chicken.

 

[Spencer Petersen]

The transition from a chicken to an egg from the reproductive process and laying allows for a changing genetic code, same how a child is different from the parent in subtle ways. If we assume evolution is the process we are abiding by then the creation of the species we call chicken may have been a transition from a very chicken-like species laying an egg which hatched into what we call a chicken.

However, the change from egg to newborn hatchling has no process that rewrites or even changes the genetic code, so its impossible for an egg to hatch an animal different than the DNA that originally took part in creating the egg specified (barring factors like toxins or radiation, but that mostly factor into birth defects and premature death rather than evolution).

Thus, it is possible for a non-chicken to lay an egg using material that would form a chicken (assuming they are very very similar species) but it is impossible to have an egg hatch into a creature different than dictated by its DNA. So the only changes in the evolutionary process come from the egg being laid, not the egg hatching. Thus the egg came first, as the transition from chicken-like bird to chicken has to come from a reproductive mutation, something that can only come from the laying of an egg.

 

[Odbarc]

Egg. They've been around much, much longer than chickens.

If you're talking about chicken eggs specifically, than... chickens, because the first chicken would've hatched from a nonchicken egg, but THEN laid a chicken one.


Hmmm. Tough.

What would that chicken come from? Every chicken comes from an egg. There's no bird giving birth mammal-style of chickens that lay eggs.

 

[King Toasty]

Egg. They've been around much, much longer than chickens.

If you're talking about chicken eggs specifically, than... chickens, because the first chicken would've hatched from a nonchicken egg, but THEN laid a chicken one.


Hmmm. Tough.

What would that chicken come from? Every chicken comes from an egg. There's no bird giving birth mammal-style of chickens that lay eggs.

That chicken evolved. A slight, final genetic mutation resulted in a chicken being born from a slightly non-chicken egg.

 

[Gladiateher]

They're both delicious...