Well, people have always asked me what comes first the chicken or the egg and I want to know which one comes first.
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I ate the chicken then I ate his leg
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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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Why the heck is this question posted in SECURITY.  I swear you people are on crack.  \nWell, the chicken came first, because the egg has cholesterol, therefore, it has to be a by-products, for cholesterol is bad for you, according to the government.
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Sometimes a young hen or a baby hen is called a chicken.  The babies of some other bird species are often called chicks.  Otherwise there is no difference between a chicken and a hen.  It follows that the eggs are the same, though different breeds of hens, or chickens, lay eggs of different colors.
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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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....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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both. if you didn't have the chicken, how do you get the egg?
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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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The chicken came first.For a couple of reasons:\n1)God created the chicken.\n2)If it had been an egg, The egg could have hatched into a rooster.
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as many others have said, the first chicken was the offspring of a genetic "proto-chicken." Certain genetic mutations changed the child from the parent and made the offspring different from the parent and officially a chicken. By definition, the offspring of a chicken has a chicken parent.
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this is a difficult question that really boils down to what you personally believe. i've wondered about it myself for sometime and have not come to a clear-cut conslusion.  you could have the "chicken or the egg" question as you already have or the tree falling in the woods-even if humanity did not exist...would god?
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Congratulations!! You just paraphrased the age old question of who came first, the chicken or the egg!!\nI'm afraid we're not privy to the information you're asking for while we are here on earth.  I believe that is something we will find out once we are not here anymore.
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Interesting fact.  God did NOT create chickens!  They are a human creation.  A hybrid of 2 other types of birds.  They wanted to be able to combine the tastiness of one bird with the domesticability of another, and voila, they got a chicken.
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I think the egg. Evolution would morph and morph the ancestorial chicken. I think the first sign of the true "chicken" would be in he egg. Please tell me thru email, i don't really kno!!!
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There were eggs long before chickens.\n\nDinosaurs laid eggs, for example, and birds evolved from dinosaurs.\n\nGuess what, a chicken is a bird.\n\nWhatever bird chickens evolved from laid eggs, so wherever you draw the line in the sand and say "here was the first chicken", well, that chicken had a mother who laid the egg.\n\nEggs came before chickens.
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In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote. \n\nChickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken. \n\nPrior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.
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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?