Which came first the egg or the chicken?
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Actually, first came the rooster and the chicken. A chicken alone cannot lay fertilized eggs. It takes fertilized eggs to have more chickens and roosters.\n\nIf the egg came first, it would have died. There would have been no one to fertilize it, lay it, or hatch it. If a lone chicken, by some miracle had hatched from said egg, there would have been no roosters to fertilize more eggs, thus no more chickens or eggs.\n\nIf it is true that such an egg existed, that needed no care, fertilization, or hatching, we are degenerating rather than progressing. Our eggs are highly dependent in order to be of any use.
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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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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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A team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.\n\nPut simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.\n\nTherefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.\n\nProfessor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.\n\nThe living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.\n\n"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."\n\nThe same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.\n\nMr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.\n\nHe told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.\n\n"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.\n\n"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."\n\nBourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.\n\nHe said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."
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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.
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The Chicken.  the chicken was created by God's power.  The egg came second, from the first Chicken.
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The Egg.\n\nDinosaurs came before the chicken, methinks.
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The egg.  Chickens and in fact, all birds, evolved from dinosaurs - which laid eggs.
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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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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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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.
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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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I would have to say either "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" or "What is the meaning of life?"
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If you believe in 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 1:19-20. Chickens are a type of fowl, so the Christian Bible says that chickens came first. \n\nIf you have a different religion, you might have a different belief about the how the treasures of the earth came to be. In the science of evolution, both chickens and eggs came before man. Since both the birds and the eggs were on earth first, historians weren't around to record which came first. \n\nWhichever answer you gave, it's okay. A chicken can't be born without a chicken egg and a chicken egg can't be laid without a chicken. Both chickens and eggs are important!
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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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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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The chicken had to of come first. The chicken is what god created. If the egg came first then there would be no way for it to survive alone. Just like the questio n "What came first, the child or the parent?" Adam and Eve were the first 2 people on earth, they had the first baby. So it has been said. I don't know what you believe... but the answer is the CHICKEN.