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| quote: | | bullshit it was the chicken! |
No, lizards had eggs much before chickens arrived.
But, let's look at the chicken or chicken egg question. First we have a protochicken. That protochicken is very similar to a regular chicken and it's laying protochicken eggs which are very similar to the regular chicken eggs. This protochicken gets fertilized and a mutation happens which makes one of its offsprings a chicken. That chicken is born in a protochicken egg. Then, that chicken has other chickens in real chicken eggs.
Now, the story seemed complete to me here, because the egg came first, then the chicken, and then the chicken egg. But one question arises here, and that is the question of defining a chicken egg. Is it an egg which has a chicken in it, or is it an egg produced by a chicken? Or are both requirements needed for an egg to be a chicken egg? In first case, the chicken egg was first, and then came the chicken. However, in the second case, the chicken came first, and then the chicken egg. In the third case, you could say chicken also came first, but it came from an egg that was neither a chicken egg or a protochicken egg, it was something in between, an egg that has both characteristics of a chicken and a protochicken egg. The question is whether we consider this egg a chicken one because of it's partial chicken nature or not. Currently it seems to me that a question of which one was first leaves a lot of unexplained circumstances, because a more precise definition of a chicken egg is needed to solve this problem. Maybe the right answer is neither, because the qualities of a chicken in this process developed gradually since it was not a single step process, but rather a two step process. Since we have
protochicken->almost-chicken egg (a protchicken egg with a chicken in it)->chicken
we can conclude that neither the chicken nor the chicken egg were the only ones responsible for the appearance of a pure chicken, but that each one contributed a part in this process, and it is difficult to say which part has more importance without knowing a more precise definition of a chicken egg.
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