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| quote: | Originally posted by Cro_Addict
ANSWER 1
Well if you are refering to in that sentance, then the chicken came first. If you rephrase the question then the egg came first.
ANSWER 2
Now there are a few different scenarios:
If: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken
An animal that was not a chicken laid the chicken egg which contained the first chicken. In this case the egg came first.
If: A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays
A chicken (that hatched from a non-chicken egg) laid an egg (a chicken egg). In this case the chicken came first.
If: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken and A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays
Then there may be an error of definition. If the definition of "chicken" used does not refer to "chicken eggs", then the chicken must come first, because without chickens there cannot be any chicken eggs.
ANSWER 3
From a cellular biology point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.
If the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.
In this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first true chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg. So the egg came first. |
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