whic one comes first? Egg or Chicken?
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Final and scientifically agreed answer, thanks to some scientists with too much time on their hands\n\nExtract from the Guardian:\n\n"Whether the panel solved that debate is not clear, but they were unanimous on the correct chicken/egg pecking order. John Brookfield, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Nottingham said the solution involves piecing together the speciation event in which chickens first evolved.\n\nHe imagines two non-chicken parents getting together and giving rise to the first individual of a new species because of a genetic mutation. "The first chicken must have differed from its parents by some genetic change, perhaps a very subtle one, but one which caused this bird to be the first ever to fulfil our criteria for truly being a chicken," said Prof Brookfield.\n\n"Thus the living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken that it would develop into, and thus would itself be a member of the species of chicken," he added."
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which came first? The egg suggests evolution, as it formed and chickens sprang from it, while the chicken supports the theory of creation. God made all the animals, and whatnot. So it all really depnds on if you beleive God created the world or if you beleive we evolved.
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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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People will keep asking this question... (681 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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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!
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recent studies have shown that chicken came first as life started with single cell organisms, & by adaptation they grew to multi cellular which were mammals . so the chicken was formed before egg.
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well it really depends on your religion. If you believe in God and that he created all things in the beginning, it would be the chicken because he created the animals first. If you don't believe in God, then there's really no answer unless the chicken slowly evolved to be an egg breeder, so that means teh chicken came 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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The Egg.\n\nDinosaurs came before the chicken, methinks.
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You mean ...what came first...Chicken or Egg...?
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Between Religion and Science, i believe that the CHICKEN came first. In relation to Religion, God created all the animals, including the chicken, for a specific purpose. Reproducing another kind of them, which in chickens, they lay eggs. In Science, we all knew in the theory of evolution, that all living things came from single celled animals, but evolved to multiple-celled animals eventually. But, it doesnt mean that being a single celled animal makes you an EGG because its already an animal, only one celled. So the answer is probably the CHICKEN.
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For #2:\nFor the question, which came first, the chicken (hen) or the egg, the answer is obviously the egg! There were eggs of other species before there were chicken eggs. The first animal that we would today consider a chicken hatched from an egg that was laid by, and created by the breeding of two animals that were not quite what we would consider a chicken today. It's simply evolution, my friend.\n\nAs for #1, asexual reproduction existed before sexual reproduction, but the distinction between male and female must have come about together, otherwise how could there be more reproduction after that?\n\nFor #3, I'm assuming you mean human (homo sapiens) parents and a human (homo sapiens) baby. The first of our species, homo sapiens, must have been born to two parents who were not quite homo sapiens, but were similar to homo sapiens. Therefore, the first human would have been a baby (son or daughter). Again, simply evolution!
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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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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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Which came first - the chicken or the egg? \n\n"The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.\n\n!