Poll: Which Came First: The Chicken or the Egg?

[meepop]

Ok, this thread is to decide which came first: the ONE chicken (because that's how many there are in the riddle, ONE) or ONE egg, for the same reason. An egg needs to be incubated by a hen or rooster, NO OTHER CREATURE, and incubation lights weren't invented so that one's impossible. And one chicken a fertile egg does not make, a hen and rooster need to mate to have a fertile egg.

So I ask you, members of the Escapist, please submit your vote and explain which came first and why!

 

[tomtom94]

The egg.
Because chickens probably evolved from a different species of bird.

 

[El_Chubba_Chubba]

The egg.
Because chickens probably evolved from a different species of bird.

Chicken because all lifeforms evolved from single celled organisms which didn't lay eggs.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

The egg, because what do chickens come out of?

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[meepop]

The egg, because what do chickens come out of?

What heated the egg, smart guy =D?

 

[SoxFan96]

The egg. Evolution tends to do stuff like that.

 

[meepop]

The egg.
Because chickens probably evolved from a different species of bird.

Exactly.

We've had the answer to this question for years.
Why bother?

Easy: Something had to INCUBATE said egg, unless it just incubated itself

 

[Phoenixlight]

Well logic dictates that the egg came before the chicken.

 

[meepop]

It does? I'm, I'm sorry I didn't realize that you could sit a chicken egg in the middle of a carpet floor (that's fertile by the way (the egg is lol)) and see it hatch...

 

[El Poncho]

The egg.
Because chickens probably evolved from a different species of bird.

Exactly.

We've had the answer to this question for years.
Why bother?

Easy: Something had to INCUBATE said egg, unless it just incubated itself

The species of bird which evolved into the chicken incubated it.

 

[Mydnyght]

ANSWER: Egg.
REASON: There were other egg-producing animals before chickens existed. Like dinosaurs.

Something like this one joke I heard:
--Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
--Because back then, there were no chickens.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

The egg, because what do chickens come out of?

What heated the egg, smart guy =D?

The bird that the chicken evolved from.

Smart guy.

 

[meepop]

Ok, this is all I can say: the egg could not have been it; from what tellmeimaninja said, if some organism laid an egg, chickens cannot swim. Any type of egg needs warmth! And by the way, the organism would have to have the down feathers of a chicken to be able to incubate the egg; so stop thinking it's the egg, something has to HEAT IT!

 

[Tomster595]

Egg, since the first chicken egg would have been laid by the chicken's evolutionary ancestor.

Ok, this is all I can say: the egg could not have been it; from what tellmeimaninja said, if some organism laid an egg, chickens cannot swim. Any type of egg needs warmth! And by the way, the organism would have to have the down feathers of a chicken to be able to incubate the egg; so stop thinking it's the egg, something has to HEAT IT!

It wouldn't have been a swimming organism. It would be an organism that is almost exactly like a chicken. It would have feathers and all that junk so that it could lay and heat the egg.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Ummm...God got together with Zeus and made them both at the same time.

 

[Lukeje]

The egg.
Because chickens probably evolved from a different species of bird.

Chicken because all lifeforms evolved from single celled organisms which didn't lay eggs.

Ermm... in between were the dinosaurs. And we know they laid eggs.

The egg, because what do chickens come out of?

What heated the egg, smart guy =D?

The less evolved not-quite-chicken.

...and the correct answer is neither. There is a time when the chicken definitely exists. A time when the chicken definitely didn't exist. And in between is a hazy area where proto-chickens are interbreeding and the question doesn't make sense.

Edit: and I'm pretty sure it's not a `riddle'. It's supposed to be a paradox.

 

[meepop]

Egg, since the first chicken egg would have been laid by the chicken's evolutionary ancestor.

Ok, I see...so it wasn't a fully-evolved chicken? Then please tell me what kind of feathers it had? Oh wait that's right you don't know; no one does. My point is, yes it may have been laid by its ancestor, but what HEATED the egg?! That's what I'm telling everyone! Unless you want to kill an egg, trust me; if you DO want to kill an egg, go on the internet, find your local farm with chickens, and ask the farmer!