who came first the chicken or the egg?
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What benefit has the answer?\nThink the chiken came first\nur question is already asked by other people if u wanna see go to the following links:\nThese are all same your question!!\n1- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1005122102625\n2- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006010304176\n3- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006011204459\n4- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006011105163
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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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The hen (chicken) came first.  The hen layed an egg and had to sit on the egg in order for it to hatch.  If there were an egg first, how would it have hatched?  Look at it this way: Did God put Adam and Eve in the garden or  sperm and ovum?
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Which came first the chicken or the egg?\nThe egg is in the chicken and the chicken is in the egg.\nThey came as one.\n\nHeaven for one may well be Hell for another, and Hell for one may be Heaven for another.  Heaven and Hell make one Kingdom...\nThey came as one.\n\nYes and No...\nThey came as one.
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In evolutionary terms, a chicken was first hatched from an egg of a slightly different animal.  Therefore, the egg came first.
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The egg.\nBefore chickens evloved into chickens, they were some other species that laid egss.\nOf course, if you are a creationist, you'll dispute that.
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the chicken came first becuse the origin is the living thing's,so if the egg come befor there is No one going to hatch it .
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The egg came first, because before there were any chickens at all, there was the species that mutated/evolved into the chicken (some sort of dinosaur, no doubt). That species was invariably an egg laying creature, and therefore, there were eggs long before there were chickens.
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The chicken. The Bible tells God created all living animals and then provided for them to reproduce. So the egg was how they reproduced.
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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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If you believe that God created animals from scratch from the dust of the earth, then the chicken came first.  If you believe in evolution and the mutation of species over time, the egg came first.
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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!
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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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I solved this one a while ago.  I always want to look at the revolutionary stand point.   We look at the species of chicken. The revolutionary mutation that made the chicken a chicken came not from the other species that the mom was, but developed in the egg.  So the first chicken( chicken) came from an egg, and that egg came from some other species.  so the egg came first.
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The egg, because chickens are the result of evolution, so the egg is the correct answer
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Chicken. There was some bird that was not a chicken which was the first to evolve into a chicken. Thus the first true chicken occured before any true chicken eggs appeared.
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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!