what came first. chicken or egg?

[peeted]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/

aparentley the egg.

intresting.

[DaveIsWrong]

Actually, you could also say that the egg came first because the question never specifies which species of egg. And see as how dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens ever existed, the egg did come first. But that's just based on a technicality.

[peeted]

well yea but the comparison and the choice of article in the sentence strongley sugest that the egg be a chicken egg.

[spitfirejunky]

Never thought of it that way.

[Danger Bird]

But can you really call an egg created by two non-chickens a "chicken egg"?

[Britney Diva]

But can you really call an egg created by two non-chickens a "chicken egg"?
Depends upon whether there's a chicken in it or not.

[Danger Bird]

Depends upon whether there's a chicken in it or not.
Says who?

[Britney Diva]

Says who?
Mother Goose?

[Danger Bird]

What the **** does a goose know about chickens?

[Curtis89]

I'd think anyone who's taken biology would have already figured it was the egg for the same reasons this article mentions.

[dislocated214]

Egg.

/end.

[Danger Bird]

I think the real question is: Which is more delicious? Of course the answer is egg.

[italic zero]

I used logic and figured this out when I was 12.

[coheneran]

This is all good and fine, but what does it forbode for us commoners? Not higher taxes I hopes.

Anyway, this question is philosophical and was answered scientifically, according to the theory of evolution. According to ID, the chicken came first, because God first created animals, not their eggs.

[Curtis89]

I think the real question is: Which is more delicious? Of course the answer is egg.

You must be kidding.. Chicken is way better.

[Substitute]

You must be kidding.. Chicken is way better.

I second that.

[Danger Bird]

You must be kidding.. Chicken is way better.
Maybe fried, but if you pitch every way of preparing chicken against every way of preparing egg, it's no contest.

[sweboy]

If you look at it in a different way, you could say that the chicken came first. It depends on how you define chicken. As 1. An embryo with the DNA of a chicken, which will later become a chicken, or 2. A borned chicken (the reason for this option would be the idea that it's not a chicken until it has fully turned into one physically, even if it has the DNA of one)

If you go with 1, the egg came first: The first chicken egg is layed by a different specie.

If you go with 2, the chicken came first: The first chicken developed from the egg/embryo of a different specie.

I would personlly go with option 1, like the scientists in the article, and say that the egg came first.

[PerpetualBurn]

Why the bloody hell can't I get a research grant to figure out this kind of obvious stuff?

[coheneran]

Try for a research grant to see if falling trees make noise when no one's around.

[PerpetualBurn]

I've already answered that one. It comes down to a dull and semantic argument over the definition of "noise".

[coheneran]

Answer me this then, oh wyse one:

How long is a string?

[PerpetualBurn]

Twice as long as half a string.

[coheneran]

Fine, fine.

What is the difference between a duck?

[PerpetualBurn]

One of both its legs is the same.

[coheneran]

Damn you google!

[PerpetualBurn]

I didn't google it! It's hardly a new question.

[SubtleDagger]

What is the meaning of life

:confused:

[Stevie]

what came first, the sperm or the egg?

The first chicken which would produce eggs would not have been inside the egg though. So then the chicken comes first!

[coheneran]

What is the meaning of life

:confused:

Everyone knows that; 42.

[Der Übermensch]

An Evolutionist would say the egg; a Creationist would say the Chicken...

[RockAndRoll]

I used logic and figured this out when I was 12.
:lol: me too, why is this news?

[peeted]

is there any way of applying kants epistomology to this question? because if there is it would realy help my philosophy revision lol

[Futue te Ipsum]

Of course it was the egg. I can't see why anybody bothered to give this stuff recognition.

[coheneran]

But the egg had to come from somewhere.

[italic zero]

yeah, from an almost-chicken

[Der Übermensch]

But the egg had to come from somewhere.

Somewhere there is a very fine line of distinction where a bird creature just short of being called a "chicken" layed an egg containing a bird creature just enough to be called so...

[Britney Diva]

what came first, the sperm or the egg?

The first chicken which would produce eggs would not have been inside the egg though. So then the chicken comes first!
But there had to have been an egg for the chicken to get into first.

[Lupus]

Already figured this out.

[PerpetualBurn]

But there had to have been an egg for the chicken to get into first.

You don't understand biology very well.

[sjada]

Doesnt it say for serious disscussion.

[RNR]

That makes sense. I always though it was the chicken but now I know that evolution happened when a child was born different than it's parent. Therefore the modern day chicken hatched from the egg of a species that's similar but not what we would call a chicken.

[ImAnIdiot]

Isnt an egg a cell? so, if the theory of evolution is correct, cell slowly be came an egg, or some thing like that?. so that means the egg came first..... I think

This probably made no sense but thats my way of looking at it

[PerpetualBurn]

The egg contains a haploid cell which will not become a chicken until fertilised by the male gamete (also haploid) they will then form a diploid zygote and live happily ever after thanks to mitosis.

[Futue te Ipsum]

Isnt an egg a cell? so, if the theory of evolution is correct, cell slowly be came an egg, or some thing like that?. so that means the egg came first..... I think

This probably made no sense but thats my way of looking at itEvolution is correct, yes, but you appear not to understand it.

You understand that it is correct though, which is a lot more than those creationist retards.

[what]

chicken is egg yes

[PerpetualBurn]

Chicken is fertilised egg.

[what]

no chicken is what you eat man egg is egg u kno

[PerpetualBurn]

I eat egg. Scrambled. Fried. Poached.

[Atomic Rain]

Genetic mutations take place at the mitosis of cells and so an egg comtaining a chicken came before the egg.

Besides, dinosaurs had eggs... :rolleyes:

EDIT:

Just read the article...

his hasn't puzzled anyone since.. yeah. It's a simple idea.

[what]

oh yeah i forgot commies only eat chicken

[PerpetualBurn]

That's because the bears in the streets of Moscow steal the eggs.

[what]

exactly and then they sand back the chickens

[Chris_lpp]

i think that in the beginning there was a bird....which becam (called itself) a chicken, met this really ugly orangfe clucky thing and they shagged etc etc...

oha and being on topic....who gives a ****?

[SalientArbiter]

Reptiles came before birds, and they laid eggs. Egg came before chicken.
Endofstory.