I want you to tell me who was first hen or egg because i don't know this otherwise i wouldn't ask you this question.
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Obviously a Chicken didn't pop out of nowhere and neither did an egg, it all started with a tiny cell developing from bacteria.
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me didnt think you wre going to ask
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Which came first - the chicken or the egg? \n\n"The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. \n\nIf the question is phrased differently, the answer is different
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The glass isn't half full or empty.  Somebody used the wrong size glass.\n\nChicken comes first in the dictionary at least in English.  In Spanish huevo comes before pollo.\n\nI don't know about milk, but who was the first one to watch a chicken lay an egg and say "I'm gonna eat what came out of that bird's behind."
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The chicken cuz God created all animals not eggs
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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 answer is: I don't know.
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Okay my sister told me this\n\nWhat is a box with no hinges and yet has a golden treasure inside?An egg
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Well if you knew anything about love you would not be asking that question.()
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1) Because they can? :^)\n\n2) Because they like to stir up debates between creationists and evolutionists.\n\n3) Because they think it is an unanswerable riddle when it isn't.\n\nIt is an interesting question but people really don't think it through enough to show just how interesting it is.  How you answer the question reflects on your belief system, your powers of deductive reasoning, and/or your sense of humor.\n\nIf you subscribe to evolution (as I do), then it's very simple -- eggs existed long before chickens ever did.  Fish lay eggs.  Amphibians lay eggs.  Reptiles lay eggs.  Dinosaurs layed eggs.  Prototypical birds layed eggs.  Early mammals layed eggs.  (Even current mammals called monotremes lay eggs).  So obviously eggs came before chickens by this line of reasoning.\n\nFollowing evolutionary theory, genetics, and the development of embryos, one might argue that again, the egg came before the chicken because the first chicken is a genetic mutation of two chicken like parents.  So, from this line of reasoning, you might, again argue the egg if you are talking about first chicken relative to the egg.  For the first chicken had to develop inside the egg as the offspring of two chicken-like parents.\n\nBut then I realized "Hey, how did the first zygotic chicken (fertilized ovum) get inside the egg in the first place?"  If the ovum was inside an egg shell with yoke and rooster sperm is added afterward, then the egg comes first.  But what if the the ovum is fertilized first, then encased in an egg shell?  Then would not the zygotic chicken come before the egg?\n\nA quick look on Wikipedia for bird reproduction indicates that the eggs are fertilized with sperm during the descent from the ovaries through the cloaca.  If this is the case, then, again, the egg comes before the chicken.\n\nSo, I forgot to add one reason people ask this question every six minutes:\n\n4) Because they have too much time on their hands. :^)
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the egg? I've never heard of the book, must be a higher level of French.
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I don't EVEN want to know.
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well, the first "chicken" would have represented a deviation from a species of wild hen in Southeast Asia bred to domestication (according to the research of paleolinguists tracing the first appearence of written reference to domestic chickens).  It's difficult to say when a domestication of a species reaches the point of speciation, but from the biological definition of speciation, it would be the point where the new breed is rendered incapable of procreating with its antecedent.\n\nRegardless, whatever bird may have been dubbed the "first chicken," it was certainly an egg before it was a chicken, and since it's the first chicken, its parents were not quite speciated and hence still only a mutated strain of hen.  So, the egg came first.\n\nAnd for all of you ardent creationists, domestic animals are the result of selective breeding by humans, so no, God did not create the chicken, no more than he created the domestic cow or cat or dog.  They are derivatives of naturally-ocurring species, but they have been bred by humans to the point where they are, at least in some cases, not capable of reproducing with their wild ancestors.  \n\nSo you can't just blurt out "God" and get away with not using your mind this time.
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bobotolu,this kind of question you don't need to ask anybody because I think you the answer yourself.
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i don't hink that is a proper question
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This question had been debated about for centuries! Why do you expect someone to give you a straightforward answer right now! It's not like everyone is going to agree on this!\n\nBut, if you believe in the bible here....\nAccording to the bible, the chicken came first: "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said, 'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'" Genesis 1:10-20\n\nAlso.... this website has the full debate so you choose what you believe\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chicken_and...\n\nAlso....according to the dictionary the egg comes before the hen (alphabetical order)\n....according to safeway the chicken ( you see it before you see the eggs in the store)\n....according to McDonalds the egg (I's before the chicken on the menu)\n\nIt all depends on the way you look at things\nGood Luck! \n\nTell us what U decide please
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Actually this has a real answer. According to the book "Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or so) Absolutely True Tidbits About (mostly) Everything" by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo the egg came first.\n\nAccording to their research chickens evolved from early Indochina birds called red jungle fowl. Mutations in the jungle fowls eggs produced things more like chickens...these bred with other bird causing more mutations producing todays chicken.\n\nSo the eggs have it!