is this a stupid question? which one comes out first the chicken or the egg?
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Well if I were to guess, I would suppose it was the chicken. I gather this idea from the Bible which says that God created the animals and birds not just eggs for the birds or fowl...\n\nGood luck with your quest! I supppse if you are pondering the great mysteries of life, you might consider this question. If it's a stupid question I have sure heard it asked all of my life. \n\nI know a little bit about chickens, and unless there is a hen to sit on the nest of eggs,  the eggs  would never hatch! They would suffer from cold and then no nurturing if they did happen to hatch. I have watched mother hens and they know a lot when it comes to gathering their chicks up when they feel danger for them. The hen will give them a signal just so the young chicks could all gather around their mother hen so she could fluff her feathers and seem larger and more fomidable while protecting the hatchling chicks.\n\nNot a stupid question, I am only guessing at what I feel explains it for me :)\nruthie~
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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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The egg.  It probaly evolved from dinos. Two types of dinos could have created the first chicken egg.
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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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The question that has perplexed us for multiple postings.\n\nThe egg came first, The first chicken came from an egg from something that was not quite a chicken.  Please see this handy movie for more details:
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The egg came first. Creatures evolved. There was once a chicken-dinosaur like creature, or maybe something like that, maybe not dinosaur, but whether it was from dinosaurs, or avians, or both, I can't remember... But there was something before the chicken, it had an egg, but there was a genetic mutation in the genes of the baby chick due to adaptation or just accident. Anyways, when the mutated chick hatched from the egg, the chicken as we know it came about.
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The Egg.\n\nDinosaurs came before the chicken, methinks.
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if u believe in evolution...then the egg...because it came from something that resembled a chicken but then transformed into a chicken\nif you believe in creation (such as myself) then the chicken...cause God made the chicken on that certain day!
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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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it depends on if you have a chicken or not..if you do have a chicken already then the egg comes first if you dont have a chicken..then the chicken must come first.
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THE EGG. the chicken had to hatch from something. and the egg came from whatever bird was clucking around before the first chicken. see how simple that was? :)
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from a christian point of view, one would say the chicken because god created animals, but if one would look from a scientific view one would say the egg because over evolution, the animal would change from the egg, not randomly one day
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the hen came first because God made the animal and the animal layed the egg...that'a my theory :)
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chicken came first!!\nPS:chicken comes in a dictionary before egg
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Hi there,\n\nDo you mean 'chick'?\n\nIf yes, then here's my answer - \nI think the chick came first, because he egg is 'back' of the chick. (I mean, a chick lays egg with the help of its posterior end)\n\nIf you mean chuck, then I have to say the egg is first because there is no such thing as 'chuck' which lays an egg.\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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Eggs are traditionally eaten for breakfast, while chicken is more commonly eaten for lunch or dinner.\n\nSo the egg would come first, with the chicken making its appearance at a later meal.\n\nUnless you make a chicken omelet, in which case the egg and chicken come at the same time.