i mean really did God just put down a chicken and a rooster and tell them to get busy or did an egg hatch and produce this chicken and if so-how did the egg get there?
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This is actually very easy to answer, based on evolution the egg had to come first. Evolution works like this: There are slight changes in the genetic information of the sex cells (i.e. eggs and sperm) of individuals that are passed on to the offspring of any two parents. These changes in the genetic makeup are called mutations. Mutations can either have: 1) A deleterious effect on the offspring (genetic disorders may arise, many times these are lethal); 2) sometimes these mutations may be advantageous, making an individual more fit than its neighbors (this is sometimes referred to as conferring an advantage); or 3) these mutations can have no effect, making no change from parent to progeny.\n\nIn the case of the chicken, it must have evolved from something else that became less fit than the chicken and eventually becoming extinct. The chicken became a chicken from this other organism through mutations that built up over time in subsequent generations. However, whatever the genetic makeup that finally became defined as a chicken, that individual was first conceived and developed in an egg before being hatched. The egg and sperm that fused to produce the chicken didn't bypass the period of gestation within an egg that had developed in the bird family millions of years before the chicken came along.\n\nSo the simple answer to this question is the egg came first -- unless you believe in fairy tales?
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both. if you didn't have the chicken, how do you get the egg?
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scrambled eggs prove the existence of God...and that He does have a sense of humour.\n\nlight fluffyness that is delicious in the morning...and it came from a chicken's behind.\n\nta-da.
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Chicken, beacuse during God's 6 creation days , on day 5 God made the sea creatures and birds. NOT EGGS! A girl chicken and a rooster(aka boy chicken) made the egg whcich made anothor chicken...
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You mean ...what came first...Chicken or Egg...?
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Rich C good question, after ready many answers they all forgot Genesis 1:24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Some may read this and say what's the point, the point is that God created every living thing according to their own kind, in Latin it says according to their own gene.
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....and goes ROAST??\n\nor the answer to egg-chicken ques....\n\nThe modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million ear old resident of the jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken. This creature would have produced the egg out of qwhich the first chicken emerged...the EGG came first.
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HENS, they first have animals, then came eggs.
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the chicken, why because god tried to toss down the eggs onto the earth but all he got was scrambled eggs.
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This question has been asked in this forum so many times - it's right up there with aliens and the Bermuda Triangle.\n\nWhat came first was the chicken WITH the egg. For more than a billion years there was life (whole beings) on earth with progeny but without eggs. It's known as asexual reproduction - fission - cell division. There were no males or females just clones. Sexual reproduction using cell division to separate cells into haploid gametes arose much later and the roots of this are explained by biology. But I agree it's a difficult subject and most people are not capable of understanding.\n\nI should also mention the Darwin was not concerned with the origin of life - modern culture has heaped that onto evolution which correctly only deals with living populations after life arises.
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The egg. If we draw an arbitrary line between something that's a "pre-chicken" and something that is a chicken, a pre-chicken laid an egg that had a mutation in it, which put it over the chicken line. Genes don't change during one lifespan, only in the offspring.
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Reptiles were laying shelled eggs for millions of years before some of them evolved into birds - and chickens came even later than that. So, by the time the first chicken laid the first chicken egg, eggs were already ancient. If your question is supposed to pertain only to chicken eggs, then obviously a species and its reproductive cells evolve simultaneously. Neither of them can exist before the other.
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ask god...haha i dont think your going to get a very precise answer to that question...theres too many theories out there..its like asking what came first, the chicken or the egg
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The question that has perplexed us for multiple postings.\n\nThe egg came first, The first chicken came from an egg from something that was not quite a chicken.  Please see this handy movie for more details:
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The chicken, God zapped it onto earth with a lightning bolt.  If He did that with an egg it would either cook or break, then there would be no chicken.  Plus if it was the egg and it hatched then who would take care of the chick and feed it and keep it warm.  It would only have fallen victim to the harsh realities of mother nature :^(.
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Actually, there is an answer to this. Evolutionarily, the egg came first. There were eggs long before there were chickens. After we bred domestic animals, we eventually got a pre-chicken from a NON-chicken egg...which we then began breeding further until it was made into what we now call chickens today. \n\nLizards lay eggs, snakes lay eggs...other birds lay eggs. These eggs yielded something close and closer to the chicken over millenia. \n\nNot to ruin your joke. But it's been answered. Only strict creationists believe the chicken came first...that it popped up out of nowhere, created by the hand of god. That's crap, of course. We have dinosaur eggs to prove it's not true.
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Which came first - the chicken or the egg? \n\n"The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.\n\n!