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

[Toaster Hunter]

Eggs. Dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens. The question never specifies which species of egg. Yay loophole!

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Eggs, since there were things other than chickens to lay eggs long before there were chickens.

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Eggs. Dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens. The question never specifies which species of egg. Yay loophole!

It would seem I've been ninja'd...

 

[Dessembrae]

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Ok, an organism almost exactly like a chicken...Yeah I'll buy it, if you have proof =). Everyone's hung up on proto-chicken ancestors who came just before the chicken, so riddle me this: What was it called then!? That's right, give me the EXACT name (scientific or normal) of the proto-chicken and I'll side with eggs! But until then I'm remaining neutral because as much as I want to know, I don't. And don't just say "What point do you have to post this if you don't know it or have a side?" I wanted to know what you guys thought!

a quick Wikipedia check gave the answer to the proto-chicken name, as the Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) and the Grey Junglefowl (G. sonneratii)
and as to the question itself.
the egg came first (although you could make an argument for "neither" being the correct answer, but I can't be arsed.)

 

[escapistrules]

for those having problems understanding this, the egg came first. for starters thats evolution, the chicken came from a some prehistoric organism. over the course of time, the organism laid an egg, which formed another organism alot like itself but with maybe some differences. if that creature manages to live long enough to mate with another of its species, then its genetic code is transfered to the next generation. this proses continues generation after generation until you get a creature that is pretty much a chicken. that creature then lays an egg and INCUBATES it. the egg hatches and you got a chicken. ta da, evolution at work.

 

[Brad Shepard]

well lizards had eggs first, so im going with eggs.

 

[Optional Opinion]

The chicken, God created it then gave it the ability to breed (which would be laying eggs). That's my opinion.

 

[linwolf]

why do people keep saying dinosaurs, fish have been around for a lot longer and fish produces eggs.

 

[Spitfire175]

The egg. Because:

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

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Yup, this should cover it. Anything else is just arguing semantics.

 

[ShakerSilver]

Eggs did. The mutation occurred in the egg which made it a chicken and not the animal that laid that egg. The other animal was pretty close to it, so it should have been able to hatch it.

 

[SnipErlite]

Egg, as many others have stated and explained before (why am I even posting?)

Also Odin did all of it, backed up by Thor. Yeah.

 

[Antiparticle]

Coca-co... goddammit.

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Dinosaurs were the ones that invented the egg! The chickens came later.

 

[Kyle English]

The egg. Hell, even Greek Mythology agrees on this one. (We all began from the GREAT COSMIC EGG.)

 

[Burningsok]

The egg, because what do chickens come out of?

What heated the egg, smart guy =D?

maybe back then the egg didn't need to be warmed up.

 

[Loves2spooge]

It depends; which one was the guy?

 

[AndyFromMonday]

The primordial soup. Touchdown bitches!

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Eggs. Dinosaurs anyone?

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

why do people keep saying dinosaurs, fish have been around for a lot longer and fish produces eggs.

They produce soft-shelled eggs, more like frogspawn than the things we would call eggs. Reptiles, as a consequence of leaving their amphibious roots behind, were the first to have actually hard shelled eggs

 

[RobCoxxy]

Egg. Definitely, from a chicken-like bird, it's mutant offspring was the chicken of today.