chicken or the egg? who came first?
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Kentucky Fried Chicken came first.
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The creationist: the chicken.\n\nThe evolutionist: the egg.\n\n(I come to that second answer like this: of course, in evolution chickens didn't just wake up one day and found that they existed, they formed slowly over generations. But if, at any point, you arbitrarily say 'this generation is the one that changed from proto-chicken into modern chicken', well those changes are the result of random mutations formed during the DNA coding process that takes place at conception... So the egg, then.
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the egg, because before hens existed there were proto-hens that laid eggs as well. One day one of those proto-hens evolved and the first hen was born.
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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 Chicken.  the chicken was created by God's power.  The egg came second, from the first Chicken.
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actually, the egg came first. if the egg didn't come,then u would have no chicken.but that's what i think.
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If you are a creationist, like me, the chicken probably came first.\nIf you believe in evolution, then by that theory the egg would have come first.
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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 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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Haha. This is a question that seems to go on forever isn't it? Well...in Biblical terms, the chicken came first.
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This question had been debated about for centuries! Why do you expect someone to give you a straightforward answer right now! It's not like everyone is going to agree on this!\n\nBut, if you believe in the bible here....\nAccording to 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 1:10-20\n\nAlso.... this website has the full debate so you choose what you believe\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chicken_and...\n\nAlso....according to the dictionary the egg comes before the hen (alphabetical order)\n....according to safeway the chicken ( you see it before you see the eggs in the store)\n....according to McDonalds the egg (I's before the chicken on the menu)\n\nIt all depends on the way you look at things\nGood Luck!
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Scientifically speaking, the egg must have come first because there was a non-chicken animal that evolved into a chicken, and the only way for that non-chicken animal to have evolved into a chicken is if there was a mutation during meiosis (reproduction). So the non-chicken animal would have laid an egg which became a chicken.
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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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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).
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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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the egg. it was formed by organisms and eventually hatched.\n\ni first thought, well, if the chicken came first, it had to come from and egg, but then that egg would have to come from the chicken, then that chicken had to had come from and egg, and so on and forth
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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.