what came first? the chicken or the egg?
478836
Mimi is right it was the chicken God made first not the egg.
1186972
the egg was a mutant that turned into a chicken, so the egg came first
1049016
Putting arguments of a religious nature to one side... Darwinian evolution would say that that which we call a chicken (due to its unique genetic code) would have come from an egg laid by an animal almost a chicken but genetically slightly different. The theory being that a random genetic variation in the DNA of the offspring made it differ from its parent enough to be a different spicies, ie the first chicken. If this is the case, and science supports the theory, then we have a choice to answer your question. We can say that the first chicken egg was laid by a non chicken (the egg came first) or the first chicken came from a non chicken egg (the chicken came first).
37515
The egg. Dinosaurs lived before birds and they layed eggs. Therefore the egg came before the chicken. :)
484490
If you believe that Genesis is the literal origin of the universe, then God created the Chicken.\n\nIf you believe in evolution, then a protochicken laid an egg, which hatched the first real chicken as we know it.
545418
I've answered the exact same question before. The egg came first because there were dinosaur eggs before there were chickens. If you specifically mean chicken eggs, I'd say the chicken because:\nBible version: God made all the animals. He made 2 adult humans first so I guess he would have made the adult animals first too.\nEvolution version: Whatever the chicken was supposed to be evolved from, had an egg of it's own which came out as a chicken, only then were there chicken eggs because there hadn't been chickens to lay the eggs.
267464
The egg, because chickens are the result of evolution, so the egg is the correct answer
418801
I would have to say either "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" or "What is the meaning of life?"
476515
Most would say the chicken, which is NOT true;\n\n"The egg! The amniotic egg (though not a chicken egg) was around on earth thousands of years before the chicken ever evolved."\n\nEggs existed long before chickens, according to On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee. These all-in-one reproductive cells, incorporating the nutrients to support life, evolved about a billion years ago. The first eggs were hatched in the ocean. As animal life emerged from the water about 250 million years ago, they began producing an egg with a tough leathery skin to prevent dehydration of its contents on dry land. The chicken evolved only about 5,000 years ago from an Asian bird.\n\nWhat makes a chicken "more evolved" than a fly?  Is it because a chicken is bigger than a fly?  Both flies and chickens have had the same amount of time to evolve to their present state.  The ancestors of chickens and flies split\noff from their common ancestor a long time ago, but both have continued to evolve since then.
477334
God created the chicken first.  If you don't believe in God then it would still be impossible for the egg to have come first.
260469
The egg. In general - eggs of various species- insects, dinosaurs, etc.  had been around LONG before chickens evolved.
1042994
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!
43739
In evolutionary terms, a chicken was first hatched from an egg of a slightly different animal.  Therefore, the egg came first.
1153546
We don't actually know. If the chicken came first, an egg was needed to hatch into that chicken in the first place. If the egg came first, a chicken would be needed to hatch an egg. There is no definite answer (yet anyway).
1166222
i get what youre saying. kind of like "what came first? the chicken or the egg??" obviously there had to of been a chicken to make the egg. so adam and eve came first in my opinion. it makes perfect sense\n\nmany will not understand that and will never want to. so dont get upset if they badmouth your question.
128499
The chicken evolved from another egg-laying bird. The first birds evolved from egg-laying reptiles, which evolved from egg-laying amphibians, which evolved from egg-laying fish. Going back to the beginning, minute variation in the "ovulation" cycle of whatever creature first laid an egg of any type.
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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!