What came first; the chicken or the egg?

Question

I am learning about this in my high school and I wanted to see everyone's point of view on it.

Answer 1

Im not sure, but i would guess the chicken bc of evolution..

Answer 2

The chicken evolved from something else and then it was able to reproduce with eggs. Nothing can evolve into an egg, its just common sense.

Answer 3

Chicken cuz God made chickens then they made eggs

Answer 4

the chicken, just like adam and eeve. They werent babies when they first arrived on earth

Answer 5

All things start out as a single cell, and an egg has been defined as a single cell. My vote is for the egg.

"but what laid the egg?" a creature that was almost a chicken on the evolutionary path to BEING a chicken. End of sermon!

Answer 6

In the bible, God made animals in the 4th day w/c means the chicken came first becuase if the egg came first how can it hatch w/o anyone protecting it!

Answer 7

chicken

Answer 8

I'd say the chicken came first. The Bible says God created animals, doesn't mention eggs.

Answer 9

hmm that's a hard one the chicken was once an egg but the egg had to come from somewhere so i'd say the chicken

Answer 10

The chicken.  God made animals first and chickens went from there.  LOL

Answer 11

its the egg. every animals offspring is slightly different, so if you believe in evolution an animal which was almost like 99.9 percent a chicken laid an egg and in it there was a slightly different animal cuz of genetic mutation and it was a chicken.

Answer 12

From an evolutionary point of view, it is mostly a matter of semantics.  What do you consider to be a chicken egg?  Is it an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken?

If it is the first, then you can't have a chicken egg until you have a creature which you consider to be a chicken to lay it, so the chicken came first.

If it is the second, the egg which hatches the creature which satisfies your criteria was by definition a chicken egg, so the egg came first.

Answer 13

where the coc.k stays in this story?

Answer 14

I suppose there will never be definitive proof, but according to the Bible, God created every animal and had Adam name them. Therefore...the chicken came first.

Answer 15

I would say the egg.  Maybe a different animal laid an egg and due to evolution, change, adaptation or what have you, a chicken slowly created...?

LOL I dont really know!

Answer 16

The chicken, because the chicken had to get laid before the egg could.

Answer 17

Think about it, an egg cannot lay itself.  So...