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

[tim98042]

i don't know who came first, but they're both delicious...

I like it, yes they are both delicious

 

[Totenkopf]

The chicken, because it came from an egg which was laid by the being from that the first chicken evolved from. Therefore, it was not a chicken-egg, but a chicken which got out of the egg. Hope it's understandable and makes sense.

 

[General BrEeZy]

HAN SHOT FIRST!!!!!

oh, wait.
wrong article...

 

[DarkWolf901]

Well obviously the chicken because i would assume they ebolved out of another species that would have evolved out of another and so forth. Whereas a chicken is needed to make an egg, an egg is not neccesarily needed to make a chicken.

Sorry, but you have that backwards. An egg is ALWAYS needed to make a chicken. You can get an egg with any bird, reptile, fish, or amphibian. And fish were around long before chickens.

Also, if you try to argue that the egg has to be something you can fry up, there were birds and reptiles before chickens.

and how on earth do you get a chicken without an egg?

Edit: Now I've read the first-post, and with your alterations to the riddle, meepop, meaning 'the chicken-egg' rather than just 'the egg' they came into existence at the exact same time when the almost-a-chicken laid an egg that it would hatch into what would be considered similar enough to a chicken to be called a chicken.

also I've read some of your posts and can't help getting a very strong 'Troll' vibe. Although that could just be a misinterpretation of the facts on my part (I hope).

 

[GrinningManiac]

What came first? The Platypus or the Duck

Cus I cannot work out (for the life of me) who copied who, and who got the basic design horribly wrong

OT: Thing that wasn't chicken lays a non-chicken egg, mutation hatches from non-chicken egg (the mutation making it the modern chicken), that chicken lays chicken eggs

Chicken came first

 

[WindScar]

The Egg, because Dinosaurs were laying eggs millions of years ago. Leaving us with the REAL question.

Dinosaurs or Eggs first?

 

[Frequen-Z]

The chicken. I have a theory as to why, but I just can't explain it simply. It's something along the lines of "The first true evolutionary chicken wouldn't have come from a true chicken egg since it is the first of it's kind"

Well, I managed to do it there.

 

[Deathsong17]

The egg from the chicken's closest ancestor that had evolved to the point that its offspring could be considered a different speices.

 

[Aesir23]

The egg. Chickens evolved from a different creature (Probably a type of dinosaur since some had the same hips as modern birds do). Also, the riddle doesn't specify that the egg is a chicken egg. It's just assumed that it is.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

"The question is not, 'Who came first, the chiken or the egg?' But more, 'Who gives a shit?'" -Me

But I think the egg for evolution and all that crap.

 

[Bigsmith]

Chickens are actualy a space race that came down to earth billions of years ago, but after reacting in a strange way to our unusual atmosphere, turned into mindless meat sacks that run on instinct.

OT: it was the egg

 

[MrFluffy-X]

If you believe in evolution then the egg came first, this flash explains it rather well:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/294180


P.S dinosuars laied eggs...so egg always wins. ye for eggs!

 

[Bigsmith]

The Egg, because Dinosaurs were laying eggs millions of years ago. Leaving us with the REAL question.

Dinosaurs or Eggs first?

Well if we take into acount the dinosaurs evolved from mammle like reptails we get the same answer.

 

[TazTheTerrible]

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!

the way this is phrased, the chicken, because it specifically disallows eggs incubated by anything other than a chicken, but the chicken need not have come from a chicken egg in this statement. So at whatever point in evolution you start calling the bird chicken, you've defined it as coming first because you only accept eggs that spawned after there was a chicken to incubate them.

 

[Private Custard]

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

Excatly this, I had the same thought when I was mulling this over the other day! Even if some theories about birds being closely related to dinosaurs are true, there are still eggs involved before the chickens came into being.

 

[kleft101]

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

well if it came from another species of bird, as evolution and common sense would dictate, that bird would incubate the egg wouldn't it? you think it just popped out of mid air?

 

[lacktheknack]

Are you a Creationist or Evolutionist?

Chicken and egg respectively. Problem solved.

 

[Kalado]

If you believe in evolution, it's the egg.
If you're religious and believe that everything is created by god, its the chicken.

But most people don't know the real meaning of this questions.

 

[oppp7]

Well, evolution says that what gave rise to the chickens laid the egg. However, since you said the egg had to be incubated by a chicken, then the first egg gets ruled out.