Now that Easter is over, the age old question remains, which came firest the chicken or the egg?
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my guess is that the egg did, since the animal that laid the egg was lower on the evolutionary scale.If you read new articles, we are constantly coming up with new creature fossils that  try to prove whether or not (or when) sea animals crawled on land or learned to fly.\nI believe the egg was the freakish change that eventually became whatever animal comes from the eggshell, be it snake or bird.
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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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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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the chicken came first becuse the origin is the living thing's,so if the egg come befor there is No one going to hatch it .
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People will keep asking this question... (677 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.
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If you mean the hen's egg and not just any egg, the answer is neither.  They both evolved from more primitive forms together.
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chicken\nBecause God put them on the ark first.
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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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Biblically it would be the chicken as created by God, then it layed eggs...  If you  dont believe in God...  Well... your guess is as good as mine.
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chicken\nboth evolution and creation (according to bible) will agree on this...\nnothing evolved from an egg (at least not chicken's eggs) and god created animals (not eggs).
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who come first chicken or egg ? ^_^
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Well techinacaly um... the egg because you couldnt have a chicken without an egg but a christian point of view is diff. god put chicken on earth to lay the eggs i dont no ask a professional.
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There is the answer to satisfy your curiosity. You have to read all of them though;\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Ais_0_mi7bIuM8xOSMy8RRYezKIX?p=chicken+or+egg
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Chicken (Gallus domesticus) didn't exist until its domestication around 2000 BC in Indochina. The first chicken came from the first chicken egg, which was laid by a red junglefowl (Gallus gallus). Whether you argue creation or evolution, the fact that humanity predates and is responsible for the speciation of chickens from red junglefowl should lay the "chicken or the egg" question to rest. \n\nFrom an evolutionary perspective, this answer holds for all species: the first member(s) of any species were the offspring of another very similar species, i.e. evolution argues that the egg always comes first. \n\nFrom a creationist perspective, this answer is anomalous, since all species that predate humanity originated as adults around 4004 BCE, i.e. creationism argues that the red junglefowl came before the red junglefowl egg.\n\nHowever, here is also an intersting analysis: Scientists think the first domestic chickens were bred from Red Jungle Fowls more than 8,000 years ago in the region now divided into Thailand and Vietnam. People bred chickens first for cockfighting contests, later for eggs and meat.\n\nSo the first official "chicken" pecked its way out of an egg laid by a bird that was not-quite-a-chicken. Depending on how you look at it, the egg--or the wild chicken--came first.\n\nIn creating the domestic chicken--and coming up with some 175 varieties--human beings also created a world where chickens rule the roost: There are more chickens than any other kind of domesticated bird on Earth.\n\nAnd where did birds come from? Scientists think that a group of egg-laying feathered dinosaurs were probably the ancestors of today's birds. So if it weren't for dinosaurs, there wouldn't be any Jungle Fowl OR chickens.\n\nWe've solved the riddle of where chickens came from. But there's still the question of where eggs came from.\n\nScientists say eggs--handy miniature incubators of life, nutrients already packed inside--evolved more than 1 billion years ago, in the oceans of Earth. When land animals evolved about 250 million years ago, their eggs had a tough covering to retain moisture on dry land. Egg-layers like amphibians, reptiles, and insects flourished. The first "land eggs" pre-dated chickens by about 249,992,000 years.\n\nSo "the egg" may be one answer to the old riddle, but here's another, if a little longer: The chicken came after the bird, the bird came after the dinosaur, the dinosaur came after the egg. And the egg came long after the first single-celled bacteria, the prokaryotes, evolved in the oceans, some 3.5 billion years ago. Ha!
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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! \n\nTell us what U decide please
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I think it's the egg. I figure at some point two other kinds of birds got together and the result of their mating is what we now call a chicken. (Bird A + Bird B=Chicken). A second theory is that throughout time, some other bird evolved into what we now call a chicken. Well, either way, the answer is EGG.
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Congratulations!! You just paraphrased the age old question of who came first, the chicken or the egg!!\nI'm afraid we're not privy to the information you're asking for while we are here on earth.  I believe that is something we will find out once we are not here anymore.