Life's greatest mystery solved!

[CptStern]

my life is now complete

 

[Ikerous]

Finally, i can sleep well at night!

 

[Vegeta897]

I've known this for a while. Kind of odd how such an old expression is finally put to rest huh? It's like, it was never made to have an answer, but now we know it..

 

[Solaris]

Of course it was the egg :/ I worked that out ages ago.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Well that was astoundingly easy.

Wow, that's so weird.

 

[Remus]

Who cares anyway.

 

[Solaris]

It's obvious it was the egg.

You can't have a chicken without an egg.
You can have an egg without a chicken.

 

[Raziaar]

Isn't this common sense for evolution?

The thing is though... the distinctions between what we consider a chicken, and what came immediately before it... would be unnnoticable. It'd still pretty much look like a chicken in every way, except a few different genes. So i'd still think of it as a chicken.

You don't sprout different features in one breeding session.

 

[Razor]

It's something that anyone with any common sense could solve in a mere moment of their life before getting on with eating their chicken curry.

 

[mortiz]

In fact it was the chicken, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster mutated a normal bird into a chicken.

 

[Ren.182]

I thought it was pretty obvious which came first. :/

 

[3.1415926535897]

One of my fondest memories was totally argument-owning all my friends who said the chicken came first. Now I can do my awesome Dance of Gloating.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Hell, even creationists would say egg because it had to have started somewhere.

 

[Narcolepsy]

I thought it was pretty obvious that the first chicken just crawled out of a dinosaur's throat.

 

[CptStern]

Hell, even creationists would say egg because it had to have started somewhere.

yes but they'd just attribute it to "immaculate conception" :E

 

[spookymooky]

Yes, and "cl" is the sound of one hand clapping...

:shaking head sadly:

 

[DigiQ8]

It's obvious it was the egg.

You can't have a chicken without an egg.
You can have an egg without a chicken.

how can you have an egg without chicken ?

 

[bbson john]

So which is the first, a bird(or any species which lay egg) or an egg?

 

[Dog--]

That's how I always thought of it, when one my my friends would say "What came first, the chicken or the Egg?" I'd say: "Dinosaurs layed eggs, and chickens weren't around back then, so the egg, obviously..."

 

[Steven]

Figured this out a long time ago.

 

[The Brick]

This is how it went

took me 2 minutes

 

[Korgoth]

"eggsperts"

/me pukes

 

[bbson john]

The dinosaurs are cute, thank you. But a cock does't lay egg, a hen does.

What I am try to say is that whether an animal which lays egg appeared first or an egg appears first.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

The dinosaurs are cute, thank you. But a cock does't lay egg, a hen does.

What I am try to say is that whether an animal which lays egg appeared first or an egg appears first.

You have to alter your perception of what is considered an egg. Everything that is born is born from an egg of some kind.

Essentially, if we were to trace as far back as possible, the earliest egg would be a simple biological container of genetic material, in which the DNA would grow more complex without outside coercion. It would need some kind of auto-nourishment.

I imagine the type of creature to create this first egg would be a singled-celled organism that instead of splitting itself in half, would deposit it's DNA into some incubating object.
Evolution would see to this incubator somehow being adapted to the incubated organism.
It's my guess the egg came before the egg-laying creature and half the fun in believing this is it flies in the face of everything you believe at this point.

 

[secret friend]

the chicken came first, then they figured out a way to get inside the eggs. that's where modern day chickens come from.

 

[Ennui]

This is how it went

took me 2 minutes

I laughed far too much at that.

 

[Sui]

The debate isn't solved; it's just been reduced to a matter of opinion.

If you think that a "chicken egg" is an egg which contains a chicken, then the egg came first.

If you think that a "chicken egg" is an egg which was produced by a chicken, then the chicken came first.