Which came first, the chicken or the egg ???!
Which came first, the chicken or the egg ???
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The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". Since both the chicken and the egg create the other in certain circumstances (a chicken emerges from an egg; an egg is laid by a chicken) it is ambiguous which originally gave rise to the other. Purely logical attempts to resolve the dilemma result in an infinite regress, since an egg was caused by a chicken, which was caused by an egg, etc. Since every chicken originates from its egg, it seems obvious the egg came first. Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life. The solution may require an examination of syntax and may rely on verification from advances in modern genetic science. When used in reference to difficult problems of causality, the chicken and egg dilemma is often used to appeal to the futility of debate and lay it to rest.
History of the problem
The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:
"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..."
Various answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humorous.
As suggested by the alternative definitions and solutions given below, the chicken-or-egg dilemma has multiple semantic variants and can thus be viewed as an exercise in semantics. Regarding at least two of these variants, the field of biology contains decisive contextual information. Although the problem has been around in one form or another for millennia, making it difficult or impossible to know who first "solved" it, the biological information needed to resolve all of the obvious semantic variants has only been available for decades.
A modern analysis covering all of the major variants was authored by Christopher Langan, published in 2001 on the Mega Foundation website[1], and subsequently included in his book of essays, The Art of Knowing [1]. It appeared again in The Improper Hamptonian [2], was included in abbreviated form in a 2001 Long Island Newsday Q&A column featuring Langan [3], and was compactly summarized in Langan's 2001 Popular Science interview.
A CNN article on May 26, 2006 featured an analysis, according to which the egg came first [2]. The key criteria on which CNN bases its answer, involving relatively recent findings from reproductive and evolutionary biology, are identical to several of those cited in the prior analysis.
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Sorry, it is a very stale question.
This silly question came first.
How do we know, we weren't there.
i would say the egg. because, whatever laid the egg, then what came out the egg had evolved into a chicken.
if you know what i mean.
the **** (rooster if my answer is XXXXXX'd out)
They evolved at the same time and are still doing so.
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The Chicken. God made the animals, not eggs.
Theologically speaking the chicken came first.
God created birds on the fifth day, thereafter came the egg! There is no reference to the creation of the egg in the bible.
Funnily enough I read about this at the weekend. The egg came first!
Its a great book, buy it! Its called 'Can cows walk down stairs'
This question is as old as the dinosaurs
I'm sure you think that you are tremendously original, but if you pay any sort of attention you'd see that this question is asked here about 5 times per day.
You must really be bored. The chicken came first.
Grow up
Has to be the EGG as the chicken would have had to be born out of an egg. There was probably a mutation from the animal that laid the egg to create the chicken in the egg. Hope this helps!
who cares
offf...are you turkish?turkish people like asking this silly question too much.they think,it is so funny like you.
obviously the **** came first, the egg was laid and the chicken got pregnant
The sperm, surely?
THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG??-YOU TELL ME BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT PILL'S YOUR ON THEY DON'T SEEM TO BE WORKING ON YOU GET THEM CHANGED OR BETTER STILL STOP PLAYING AROUND ON YOUR MINDER'S COMPUTER BECAUSE YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE IN A STRAIGHT JACKET.
WERE YOU EVER ON THE SET'S OF BRAIN TEASER.LOOK'S LIKE YOU STOLE THE SCRIPT TO ONE PROGRAM WHERE THERE WAS DEBATE OVER THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG.YOU GOT IT ON YOU.WISH YOU HAD TO LEAVE MORE DETAIL'S ON THIS QUESTION AND WE ALL COULD GET TO YOU AND PECK THE LIFE OUT OF YOU.
I'D MAKE THE BEST DISH OUT OF YOU ON THE BOAN.I'D MARINATE YOU IN GREEN CHILLES AND VINEGAR.
I'M A VEGETARIAN ANY WAY'S SO DON'T BOTHER WITH EGG'S OR CHICKEN.YOU GET THE BIRD FLU WITH THEM.
you will find that science has already answer this question it is evolution and the egg came first and toke many hundreds of years before the 1st chicken was born.
Does it matter if I say it was the chicken or the egg who came first? It's still gonna be a mystery to you, perhaps less mysterious ba. (P/S: ba is a slang .. sorry!)
god made animals first
the egg came first because in the time of the dinosaurs, dinosaurs came from eggs and there were no chickens in that time/period..so i say the egg came first.
Oh yet again i'm answering this question.
they answered this finally a matter of months ago. an egg has the ability to change its genetic make up, to evolve, a chicken doesn't. therefore the egg came first as it was the egg of a something else that evolved into a chicken.
voila.
must be chicken
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chiken....egg.....chicken....e... dont know
this question is getting very boreing now