what came first, the word for chicken or the word for egg?
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Well I opened my Dictionary and I found chicken first on page 52 and then found egg on page 94
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The egg, no doubt about it.\n\nA chicken is only a clever mean of transportation and reproduction used by and egg.\n\nYou see in early days when life was beginning - in a pond. The being called egg was like an amoeba - a jelly like thing. When earth started to solidify the ponds started to dry up. Now what this thing called egg would do? Either somehow survive the dry periods or die a miserable death. Obviously it did not choose to die so it did something very clever. It formed a shell around it to keep moisture and other content inside. And when pond would filled up with water this shell would dissolve and so on. Now dry periods started to get longer and longer. There therefore was no other option for the egg other than to be able to leave the pond and find a new one. So over the ages it hatched out a detailed plan that would enable it to move around and stay alive and dry as well. That plan eventually took a form that today we know as a chicken. \nMoral of the story: Eat the chicken but remember the egg and the difficulties it faced to get the meat to your wasteful dinner table.
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Well, if we're going by the Theory of Evolution, the egg.  As the chicken's ancestors were slowly evolving to the current form of chicken, the last one who's DNA was  99.9999999999999999999% similar to the modern chicken layed an egg which contained 100% chicken.  So, the egg came first.
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the chicken. god created animals, not eggs.
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The egg from something like a chicken.\n\nOr, from another point of view,\n\nThe egg came for breakfast and the chicken for lunch!
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who come first chicken or egg ? ^_^
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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!
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The Chicken/hen came first.\n\nGenesis 1:20  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.
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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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The chicken because God created all of the animals first.  The egg came shortly after. :D
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well\nit's the same as follows:\ndid egg come first or a hen?\ni wish u find your answer.
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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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My guess: chickens evolved from animals who breed via eggs, so eggs were first. Like there was one animal similiar to a chicken, that one day dropped an egg, and out of the egg came the first chicken. Or something like that...
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Apparently the chicken came first.  Then the eggs.  According to Genesis anyway.
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Which came first - the chicken or chicken 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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Between Religion and Science, i believe that the CHICKEN came first. In relation to Religion, God created all the animals, including the chicken, for a specific purpose. Reproducing another kind of them, which in chickens, they lay eggs. In Science, we all knew in the theory of evolution, that all living things came from single celled animals, but evolved to multiple-celled animals eventually. But, it doesnt mean that being a single celled animal makes you an EGG because its already an animal, only one celled. So the answer is probably the CHICKEN.
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The chicken because the chicken was brought to earth by god then they mating and then came the egg. and you also said chicken first so i had to be the chicken\n\n~~KATE~~