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Egg vs. Chicken

jbmorite

jbmorite

Philippines

Which of these exist first?.....egg or chicken?

03:02 PM Jan 03 2008 |

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lots

lots

Philippines

If you take the question literally the answer is simple. It was the egg. Why? Basically because the question never states that the egg is a chicken egg and because of this we can say the egg came first before the chicken courtesy of the countless dinosaur eggs laid before the time of the chicken. Of course this reasoning is being pedantic since the question assumes that everyone will read the question to mean the chicken egg.

If this is the case then the question is impossible to answer unless a definition is cleared up. The question is not impossible to answer because nobody was around at the time of the first chicken (or egg) but because nobody has irrefutably defined what a chicken egg is. Is a chicken egg an egg that a chicken lays, or a egg that contains a chicken? If it is the former then the chicken came first because you need the chicken to lay the chicken egg. If it is the latter then the egg came first because it contained the very first chicken as we know it.

09:17 AM Jan 10 2008 |

jbmorite

jbmorite

Philippines

Hey Lot,

  Have you tried to question your self where the egg came from?...right! from chicken. When we're talking about the evolution of this creature, then how it exist? can you show some proof? Do you know How the world created?...Do you believe on  the different theories presented by some of the experts?...do you have bible? Try to read Genesis.

12:35 AM Jan 12 2008 |