what came first, the chicken or the egg, explain?
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Chicken (Gallus domesticus) didn't exist until its domestication around 2000 BC in Indochina. The first chicken came from the first chicken egg, which was laid by a red junglefowl (Gallus gallus). Whether you argue creation or evolution, the fact that humanity predates and is responsible for the speciation of chickens from red junglefowl should lay the "chicken or the egg" question to rest. \n\nFrom an evolutionary perspective, this answer holds for all species: the first member(s) of any species were the offspring of another very similar species, i.e. evolution argues that the egg always comes first. \n\nFrom a creationist perspective, this answer is anomalous, since all species that predate humanity originated as adults around 4004 BCE, i.e. creationism argues that the red junglefowl came before the red junglefowl egg.\n\nHowever, here is also an intersting analysis: Scientists think the first domestic chickens were bred from Red Jungle Fowls more than 8,000 years ago in the region now divided into Thailand and Vietnam. People bred chickens first for cockfighting contests, later for eggs and meat.\n\nSo the first official "chicken" pecked its way out of an egg laid by a bird that was not-quite-a-chicken. Depending on how you look at it, the egg--or the wild chicken--came first.\n\nIn creating the domestic chicken--and coming up with some 175 varieties--human beings also created a world where chickens rule the roost: There are more chickens than any other kind of domesticated bird on Earth.\n\nAnd where did birds come from? Scientists think that a group of egg-laying feathered dinosaurs were probably the ancestors of today's birds. So if it weren't for dinosaurs, there wouldn't be any Jungle Fowl OR chickens.\n\nWe've solved the riddle of where chickens came from. But there's still the question of where eggs came from.\n\nScientists say eggs--handy miniature incubators of life, nutrients already packed inside--evolved more than 1 billion years ago, in the oceans of Earth. When land animals evolved about 250 million years ago, their eggs had a tough covering to retain moisture on dry land. Egg-layers like amphibians, reptiles, and insects flourished. The first "land eggs" pre-dated chickens by about 249,992,000 years.\n\nSo "the egg" may be one answer to the old riddle, but here's another, if a little longer: The chicken came after the bird, the bird came after the dinosaur, the dinosaur came after the egg. And the egg came long after the first single-celled bacteria, the prokaryotes, evolved in the oceans, some 3.5 billion years ago. Ha!
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The chicken definitely came first when God created the animals and then the chicken layed the egg.\n\nOh, F.Y.I and P.S. to all you city dwellers:::\nChickens lay eggs whether there's a rooster present or not.\nHe hasn't got a thing to do with her egg production. His job is to FERTILIZE the egg before she lays it thereby creating a chick.
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A big idiot came first and laid an egg and kept asking stupid question all his life. The egg turned into the chicken. No one remembers what happened after that - only that stupid question is still kept alive by its predecessors- who came first
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The EGG... Reptiles came first, then birds, then mammals.... And reptiles LAY eggs!! Therefore the EGG came before the birds (in this case the chicken).
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The egg must have come first.\nLiving things evolve through changes in their DNA. The chicken evolved from the non-chicken through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens.\nSo the egg came first.
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the egg. it was formed by organisms and eventually hatched.\n\ni first thought, well, if the chicken came first, it had to come from and egg, but then that egg would have to come from the chicken, then that chicken had to had come from and egg, and so on and forth
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The egg.  It probaly evolved from dinos. Two types of dinos could have created the first chicken egg.
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The egg I would say. Actually this simplification doesn't stand up. \nThe answer is neither and both. If you look at fossil records, eggs existed all of the way back and when did a chicken actually become a chicken? \nAsk yourself. Did a chicken become a chicken, when a dinosaur gained feathers or when it lost its teeth and grew a beak? and is that why most amphibians taste like chicken and lay eggs?
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In the beginning God created the animals fully grown, in order to procreate. Just like he created Adam and Eve fully grown. So therefore the chicken came before the egg.
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The egg, because chickens are the result of evolution, so the egg is the correct answer
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Just depends on what you believe in.  If you believe in Adam and Eve then you believe the hen probably came first.  The bible states that god created everything in 7 days.  \n\nIf you believe in the egg first you believe in evolution.  The egg was probably a mutated form of a dinosaur.  The creature probably didnt look much like a bird, but over millions of years the thing evolved into a chicken
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the egg\nthese webistes might help more\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/question85.htm\nhttp://www.word-detective.com/howcome/chickenoregg.html\nhttp://www.aeb.org/KidsAndFamily/which_came_first.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_chicken_or_the_egg\nhttp://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/2562
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The egg came first, from something that was close to, but not quite a chicken. What came out of the egg was a mutation, also known as the first chicken, or at least close to one. Since it was able to successfully breed, its mutated genes were passed on, and much later on, chickens were able to dominate, while their earlier ancestors became extinct...
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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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Apparently the chicken came first.  Then the eggs.  According to Genesis anyway.
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The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". When used in reference to difficult problems, a chicken and egg problem is similar to a Catch 22 situation where something cannot happen until a second thing does, and the second thing cannot happen until the first does. For example, a person might have trouble finding a job without work experience, but to get work experience he/she must get a job.\n\nThe earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:\n\n"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..." \nVarious answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humourous\nAssuming a chicken egg\nIn this case, the egg is assumed to be a chicken's egg. This is an obvious assumption since the question itself implies a link between the two.\n\nIf one assumes the egg to be a chicken egg then one must define what a chicken egg is:\n\nIf: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken \nThen a bypass is allowed: An animal that was not a chicken laid the chicken egg which contained the first chicken. In this case the egg came first.\n\nIf: A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays \nThen a bypass is allowed: A chicken (that hatched from a non-chicken egg) laid an egg (a chicken egg). In this case the chicken came first.\n\nIf: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken and A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays. \nThen there may be an error of definition. If the definition of "chicken" used does not refer to "chicken eggs", then the chicken must come first, because without chickens there cannot be any chicken eggs.\nEvolutionary chicken\nIn this case, the egg is not assumed to be a chicken egg. In effect this changes the question to: "Which came first, a chicken or any egg".\n\nFrom a pseudo science point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.\n\nIf the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.\n\nIn this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first true chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg. After all, the question is purposefully ambiguous -- it is not, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"\n\nThe crux of the matter is how to biologically define 'a chicken'. What level of genetic similarity or structural similarity determine whether an organism is a chicken? One can only define what was the first chicken after the fact, thus any definition of the first chicken becomes arbitrary. The question 'which came first?' ignores the complicated reality of speciation.\n\nAccording to the principles of speciation, neither the chicken nor the egg came first, because speciation does not occur in simple, obvious units. In fact, evolution is about a slow transi
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deffo the chicken, a genetic mutation from an earlier egg laying species will have created the first chicken and that animal will have passed on the genes.\nexactly the same way we were created!\nbut then again the chicken would have been inside the egg so the answer is both!