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If you want to take the question literally, there's not much of a debate — egg laying animals (like dinosaurs) existed long before chickens. So eggs definitely came first, but qualify the question by asking, "if a chicken is born from an egg, where did the egg come from?"
Research shows that the OV-17 protein that produces chicken eggs can only be found in, you guessed it, chicken ovaries. But this all depends on how you define a chicken egg. In other words, is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or one that contains a chicken? It's also important to consider the egg itself, as small DNA mutations occurring over time can create new species from the initial cell. An earlier animal like a chicken that called a "proto-chicken" could have produced a modern chicken, but folks disagree on whether this would be considered a chicken inside a proto-chicken egg or a chicken inside a chicken egg.
So, the egg came first, because of a slight mutation in DNA.
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Eggs came first because there were fish and other egg-born species long before there were birds. Every time a creature hatches from an egg, it is ever so slightly different than the creature that laid the egg. Over many millions of years, something that started as a fish ended up like the chicken we know of today. Or the platypus. Or the snake.
As others stated, the egg most likely came first. Evolution happens. Mutation could cause an animal to produce a completely new animal. Although we can't know for sure, the egg logically came first.
Note that evolution doesn't make sudden changes. You didn't have something completely different from a chicken laying an egg that turned into a chicken, you had something almost exactly like what we would call a chicken laying an egg that had a tiny change that made it a chicken.
The egg. Evolution provides a solid answer for this: as a winged species evolved, it developed feathers and became more and more like the chicken we know today. The egg came before the chicken because there isn't a defined point where we can say "And in 10,184, the first chickens appeared", therefore the egg that contained the chicken existed before the chicken would have (in non-embryonic form).
Eggs can only be laid by a parent while organisms were originally cells that came from the resources
Why the hell is everyone saying the egg?
There was a species before the chicken, very similar, but maybe different in some aspects. A pair in this species mated, and laid an egg. This egg had slightly different DNA to it's parent, due to a mutation. The egg hatched and was a chicken, not the species that came before it. what came first you ask? The egg. In the question "What came first the chicken or the egg" When it says chicken it means a hatched chicken, and probably a fully grown one, so the embryo inside the egg cannot be considered a true "chicken" yet.
chicken, god made the chicken the chicken laid an egg then it hatched then they laid 2 eggs and so on
That doesn't make sense. Chicken don't just lay fertilized eggs ready to hatch, who fertilized it?
Also don't mean to start a religion flamewar, but there is evidence of evolution is species, so it is highly unlikely that god (if he does exist) pre-made a domesticated chicken that we know today.
There was a species before the chicken, very similar, but maybe different in some aspects. A pair in this species mated, and laid an egg. This egg had slightly different DNA to it's parent, due to a mutation. The egg hatched and was a chicken, not the species that came before it. what came first you ask? The egg. In the question "What came first the chicken or the egg" When it says chicken it means a hatched chicken, and probably a fully grown one, so the embryo inside the egg cannot be considered a true "chicken" yet.
Excellent! Perhaps that does a better job of explaining it than what I had said earlier.
chicken,god made the chicken the chicken laid an egg then it hatched then they laid 2 eggs and so on
Well, humans themselves are technically responsible for the "invention" of the chicken. Allegedly, the Asians (Chinese/Indians) domesticated the jungle fowl around 8,000 years ago and traded it towards the middle east (Pakistan, etc), and then it spread across the entire civilized world, slowly evolving by selective breeding into what we now call a "chicken".
But if you must get into a religious discussion here, that begs a question even larger than chickens and eggs: which came first, the universe or god?
At what point does a chicken stop being a chicken?
When it crosses the road.
As to the topic's question, the answer is C: Neither. They were both predated by the tomato. Which in turn was outplayed by the potato, and generally pwned by the tomahto.
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So, the egg came first, because of a slight mutation in DNA.
From some species that came before the chicken in the evolutionary line...
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There was a species before the chicken, very similar, but maybe different in some aspects. A pair in this species mated, and laid an egg. This egg had slightly different DNA to it's parent, due to a mutation. The egg hatched and was a chicken, not the species that came before it. what came first you ask? The egg. In the question "What came first the chicken or the egg" When it says chicken it means a hatched chicken, and probably a fully grown one, so the embryo inside the egg cannot be considered a true "chicken" yet.
That doesn't make sense. Chicken don't just lay fertilized eggs ready to hatch, who fertilized it?
Also don't mean to start a religion flamewar, but there is evidence of evolution is species, so it is highly unlikely that god (if he does exist) pre-made a domesticated chicken that we know today.
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Well, humans themselves are technically responsible for the "invention" of the chicken. Allegedly, the Asians (Chinese/Indians) domesticated the jungle fowl around 8,000 years ago and traded it towards the middle east (Pakistan, etc), and then it spread across the entire civilized world, slowly evolving by selective breeding into what we now call a "chicken".
But if you must get into a religious discussion here, that begs a question even larger than chickens and eggs: which came first, the universe or god?
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At what point does a chicken stop being a chicken?
When it crosses the road.
As to the topic's question, the answer is C: Neither. They were both predated by the tomato. Which in turn was outplayed by the potato, and generally pwned by the tomahto.
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