What came first?

[Barbara.]

Ok let's debate this age old question.
What came first , the chicken or the egg?

[rohancool]

Well I would think chicken. The life of the planet started with single cell creature which evolved into other species over thousands of years. So I think chicken evolved from other specie and then it started mating and giving eggs.

[mattsmith48]

Well I would think chicken. The life of the planet started with single cell creature which evolved into other species over thousands of years. So I think chicken evolved from other specie and then it started mating and giving eggs.

The first chicken didn’t appear out of nowhere, the first thing we would call a chicken came out of an egg, it wasn’t a chicken egg, but the chicken came out of it.

[Stronk Serb]

The egg. The dinosaurs which are the ancestors to species like ducks, reptilians, birds etc. had to hatch from somewhere. The whole evolutionary idea for the egg was to have the fetus grow in water while actually not being in water, so an eggshell was filled with water and other substances but was in a shell meaning you could bury it at the beach and a new creature would hatch.

[NewLeafsFan]

The chcken.

Eggs are produced inside of chickens before they are laid. There must have been a chicken that produced the first egg to have young rather than an egg appearing out of no where.

[Barbara.]

The chcken.

Eggs are produced inside of chickens before they are laid. There must have been a chicken that produced the first egg to have young rather than an egg appearing out of no where.
Are you saying that the chicken appeared out of nowhere?

[NewLeafsFan]

Are you saying that the chicken appeared out of nowhere?

It takes a chicken to make an egg. If there is no chicken, there is no egg. Chickens are not directly made by chickens. Chickens make eggs. Eggs become chickens.

[ssaars]

The egg, first another species came out of the egg but slowly creatures came out that resemble a chicken more to the point an actual chicken came out. The egg was long before

[mattsmith48]

It takes a chicken to make an egg. If there is no chicken, there is no egg. Chickens are not directly made by chickens. Chickens make eggs. Eggs become chickens.

That is an incredibly inconsistent reply. Eggs don't become chickens, the chickens are inside the eggs, they developed and grow inside until they hatch. Its like with humans, it grows inside the uterus until it comes out, at the start it not human, but eventually it becomes one even thought it is not ready to come out yet. Its the same thing with chickens except they lay eggs.

[NewLeafsFan]

That is an incredibly inconsistent reply. Eggs don't become chickens, the chickens are inside the eggs, they developed and grow inside until they hatch. Its like with humans, it grows inside the uterus until it comes out, at the start it not human, but eventually it becomes one even thought it is not ready to come out yet. Its the same thing with chickens except they lay eggs.

It takes two chickens that are (a male and a female) to create a baby chick (or an egg that will hatch into a baby chick). So eggs couldn't have existed until chickens were around.

[mattsmith48]

It takes two chickens that are (a male and a female) to create a baby chick (or an egg that will hatch into a baby chick). So eggs couldn't have existed until chickens were around.

It wasn't a chicken who made the egg, but it was still an egg in which the chicken grew and eventually hatch from.

[NewLeafsFan]

It wasn't a chicken who made the egg, but it was still an egg in which the chicken grew and eventually hatch from.

Ok. Well I admit that some of my responses have just been random facts to try to sound like I had an argument. This is one argument where there truly is no right answer.

[eric2001]

Probably the egg because it has the DNA from both the female and male. That combination may have resulted in the first new species that has what we think is a modern chicken dna.

[Sword of the morning]

I guess it would depend on belief. If you believe in evolution them it would be egg or of you believe in divine creation it would be the chickenm

[Tom_theflash]

Well, do you believe in creation or evolution? If you believe in creationism, it will be the chicken, because you will believe that God created the chicken, and later in life the chicken laid an egg. If you believe in evolution, it's the egg, because while the chicken was evolving from its non-chicken ancestor, eventually there would have been the first "real" chicken, and it would have hatched from an egg. I guess that's why it's an unanswerable question, since your answer will depend on your philosophical perspective:)

[Anthony17]

Who cares? That is the forrect answer.

[Barbara.]

Bump

[Max the Disenchanter]

evolution doesn't work that way.

[Barbara.]

evolution doesn't work that way.
So how does evolution work? What came first chicken or the egg?

[abcdeqwe]

The egg came first.

[Tim the Enchanter]

**ahem**
Uh, technically speaking the first chicken resulted from a mutation from two proto-chickens. So technically and scientifically speaking, the egg did indeed come first.

[InternetTeen]

The egg.
The first chicken was born of something that was almost but not quite a chicken.
The first chicken was born from an egg laid by an almost but not quite chicken.

[awsomekid23]

The egg

[TristanM]

My mom crochets and sells stuff at craft fairs and she has chickens and eggs and one of her things she does is ask people this question then she says "I made the chicken first". It's kind of funny the first twenty times she says it.