What came first ...the chicken or the egg ?
141270
Whatever ...\nBoth will now die due to the avian flu ..
663991
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.
1027119
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).
545418
I've answered the exact same question before. The egg came first because there were dinosaur eggs before there were chickens. If you specifically mean chicken eggs, I'd say the chicken because:\nBible version: God made all the animals. He made 2 adult humans first so I guess he would have made the adult animals first too.\nEvolution version: Whatever the chicken was supposed to be evolved from, had an egg of it's own which came out as a chicken, only then were there chicken eggs because there hadn't been chickens to lay the eggs.
911397
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.
4921
Well, the chicken has evolved from a previous species. That species wasn't really a chicken, but it laid a mutated egg, which was a chicken. So, the egg came first.
190885
People will keep asking this question... (681 times and counting)\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=ArqSG_s0jG4ok1r1mx8sEIIjzKIX?p=chicken+or+the+egg\n\nHere's my answer, cut and paste from my answer to the same question asked the other day:\n\nThere 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.
313302
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
102816
which came first? The egg suggests evolution, as it formed and chickens sprang from it, while the chicken supports the theory of creation. God made all the animals, and whatnot. So it all really depnds on if you beleive God created the world or if you beleive we evolved.
159512
The chicken because God created all of the animals first.  The egg came shortly after. :D
580717
this question has been asked many times, not just throughout time but also many times just here on yahoo answers.  i say "egg"... for a thorough explanation you can look up my answers.\n\ni just find it very interesting that when asked in the "pets" forum, most people say something religious to support their claim that chickens came first, and on the "science" forum, more people say "egg" and support their claim with "science has proved...."\n\nmeh, science never really proves anything... but this one just requires a little thought about the true nature of the question.  it would be a little more difficult to answer if it was "which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"  but no one ever asks that question, so we're all safe.  whew.  :)
107389
All living things are created by God (or whatever higher power you believe in) so the chicken had to come first.  The egg is not alive yet.
598261
The egg came first.  At some time in the evolutionary development of the chicken as we know it, there was some previous creature that was not quite a chicken.  Let's call this a "proto-chicken".  In the ovary of the proto-chicken, which is always subject to some small amount of mutation, it carries all the genes that would make a proto-chicken, but it gets mutated to form what we think of as a chicken.  The egg is laid, and when it hatches, it will become a chicken.  Thus, the proto-chicken which laid the egg is not a chicken, but the egg will produce a chicken, so the egg came first.
24086
Its obviously the egg.\nlet me explain. If we embrace the evolution theory, and we have no reason not to, then we can assume that each species evolved from some ancient ancestor. the chicken, as we know it today has evolved from some other bird. this bird was probably very similar to chicken but at some point in history it layed an egg that carried the mutation that became later - chicken.\nyou can ask - why isn't the egg evolved from something else? well, it actually has. BUT an egg is an egg no matter how it looks like or whats in it - it can cary achicken an owl or a snake. you still call it an egg.\n\nthis is why my short answer is : the Egg.
494548
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.
187832
The chicken. The Bible tells God created all living animals and then provided for them to reproduce. So the egg was how they reproduced.
166906
well it really depends on your religion. If you believe in God and that he created all things in the beginning, it would be the chicken because he created the animals first. If you don't believe in God, then there's really no answer unless the chicken slowly evolved to be an egg breeder, so that means teh chicken came first