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well, this is a hard question because the chicken basically evolved slowly overtime from dinousaurs. And dinosaurs evolved from something else, so you have to go back to the very first life on earth. Now the first life evolved spontaneously as far as we know from the primeval "soup". So actually soup came first
In that soup the first life was composed of single cell organisms. Now single cell organisms are a bit like eggs: they have a protein rich centre surrounded by a cytoplasmic fluid contained by a membrane (the shell). From these single cell animals evolved all life on earth.
So I reckon the Egg came first.
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Posted: 2007-08-18 03:06:57
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guys my teacher said it's the chicken...remember noah's ark? thats it he saved a pair of each animal and all the animals that are not in the ark died...so its the chicken
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Posted: 2007-08-18 03:10:13
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_or_egg
Definitions
In this case, the egg is assumed to be a chicken's egg. This is an obvious assumption since the question itself implies a link between the two.
If one assumes the egg to be a chicken egg then one must define what a chicken egg is:
If: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken
Then a bypass is allowed: An animal that was not a chicken laid the chicken egg which contained the first chicken. In this case the egg came first.
If: A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays
Then a bypass is allowed: A chicken (that hatched from a non-chicken egg) laid an egg (a chicken egg).
If: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken and was laid by a chicken
Then there may be an error of definition. If the definition of "chicken" used does not refer to "chicken eggs," then the chicken must come first, because without chickens there cannot be any chicken eggs.
If: The question didn't specify that the egg had to be a chicken egg
Then we could easily say that the egg came first, because fish had been laying eggs long before chickens were around.
If: The chicken came first because it had to hatch the egg
Then the riddle would make more sense, but would still be debated.
sorry guys.....
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Posted: 2007-08-18 03:18:36
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Posted: 2007-08-18 03:28:26
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again from wiki:
"Syntax: One can consider the question inside the framework of experience, making the question concrete instead of abstract: "The chicken or the egg - which came first?" "The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different."
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Posted: 2007-08-18 03:33:10
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On 2007-08-18 03:06:57, max_wedge wrote:
So actually soup came first
In that soup the first life was composed of single cell organisms.
So your saying that Chicken Soup came first?
My reasoning is (god help me) that human beings, Homo Sapiens or Neanderthal Man, in their first use of basic modern language, would have had to NAME the creature as a Chicken, before they could say the egg belonged to a Chicken. Does that make sense?
So, by that reckoning, the Chickens Egg couldn't have appeared unless the creature it came from was called a Chicken in the first place.
I rest my case
I think its called logic. Chicken all the way.
Go Chicken, Go Chicken...
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Posted: 2007-08-18 03:46:45
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On 2007-08-18 03:46:45, goldenface wrote:
So, by that reckoning, the Chickens Egg couldn't have appeared unless the creature it came from was called a Chicken in the first place.
. . . when I was in elementary school, we have this classmate whom we CALL - chicken (because he was always AFRAID of kiddie-fights . . .) ! Does that MEAN that our CHICKEN-classmate can LAY eggs too (that time . . . )
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Posted: 2007-08-18 03:57:37
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Is he a Marsupial?
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Posted: 2007-08-18 04:03:43
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On 2007-08-18 04:03:43, goldenface wrote:
Is he a Marsupial?
. . . nope, by HIS looks . . . it's more of an EXTRA-TERRESTIAL !
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Posted: 2007-08-18 04:12:12
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Oh, yeah, and where does his eggs pop out from?
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Posted: 2007-08-18 04:15:08
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