What Came First? The Chicken or The Egg?

[Valkyrie]

This is a debate on evolution, so what do you believe came first? The chicken, or the egg?

 

[Chicknoodle]

the chicken because i believe in evolution. all a person needs to do to grasp it is look at their own immune system. tell me thats not it at its basest!

 

[Fiyero]

the chicknoodle came first

 

[philitup]

It would only make sense to say the chicken.

 

[Oreo]

neither. the oreo came first.

(:

 

[Princess_Stitch]

The omelette.

 

[Kirito]

the chicken cus the egg would die without a mum

 

[Whispered]

In terms of evolutionary biology, the egg would have to come first.

Consider this: Say the direct ancestor of the chicken (the thing that gave birth to the first thing we'd call a chicken) was a pterodactyl (again, hypothetical, and i just like that word). When that thing laid the egg, the egg had the mutations to make it a chicken. The mutations happen before the egg, not at hatching - thus the only logical explanation is that the egg, technically, came before the first of whatever organism hatched from it

 

[Thrill]

In terms of evolutionary biology, the egg would have to come first.

Consider this: Say the direct ancestor of the chicken (the thing that gave birth to the first thing we'd call a chicken) was a pterodactyl (again, hypothetical, and i just like that word). When that thing laid the egg, the egg had the mutations to make it a chicken. The mutations happen before the egg, not at hatching - thus the only logical explanation is that the egg, technically, came before the first of whatever organism hatched from it

More or less what I would have said.

The first chicken egg was a mutated proto-chicken egg laid by a proto-chicken. The egg came first.

 

[Chicknoodle]

the chicknoodle came first

phrasing

 

[allison]

it's kind of confusing because if the egg came first, who laid it? And if the chicken came first, where did it hatch from? I think it would make more sense from an evolutionary standpoint to say the chicken came first


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[Chicknoodle]

I'm not saying it was aliens

but...

aliens.

 

[Valkyrie]

In terms of evolutionary biology, the egg would have to come first.

Consider this: Say the direct ancestor of the chicken (the thing that gave birth to the first thing we'd call a chicken) was a pterodactyl (again, hypothetical, and i just like that word). When that thing laid the egg, the egg had the mutations to make it a chicken. The mutations happen before the egg, not at hatching - thus the only logical explanation is that the egg, technically, came before the first of whatever organism hatched from it

I'd have to agree with this, because a chicken can't just pop up out of nowhere, there had to be an ancestor of the chicken that laid an egg and that egg became the chicken.