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"what came first, the chicken or the egg?"

hmmm...........

hmmm...........

The Chegg.

Depends what your stance of evolution is.

And also, is the real question what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg, because some dinosaurs laid eggs before the days of chickens.

The evolution view would be that at some point something that wasn't a chicken (but was almost there) laid an egg, and from it emerged what we not consider to be the chicken. At this point you still have the question of whether the egg that the chicken hatched from counts as a chicken egg, in which case it is the chicken that came first, or is it considered to be a non-chicken egg, having been laid by a creature that was yet to be a chicken?

I guess the real question is whether an egg is of the type of what hatches inside it, or what laid it.

the Egg, the Chiken faked it O_O

Meka Dragon wrote:
> Stuff that is far too deep for my brain to process on a monday lunchtime.

Umm, yeah, I'd go with that!

We've gone over the Chicken/egg thing a few times now.

A better question is what came first, DNA or protein? DNA is used to make proteins but proteins are used in the synthesis of DNA. They are both so complex that they wouldnt just spontaneously come into existence, unless God made them of course, but non of you believe that now, do you?

Geffdof wrote:
They are
> both so complex that they wouldnt just spontaneously come into
> existence

Why not? Surely the same thing could be said about everything in existence, what with "The Big Bang" being the most popular theory of why anything exists.

Yeah, thats what "scientists" say. But to me the existence of a higher being (known to his friends as God) is less far fetched than the spontaneous creation of two complex molecules to form life and then that life going on to survive to spawn the entire life of the planet.

Meka Dragon wrote:
> Depends what your stance of evolution is.
>
> And also, is the real question what came first, the chicken or the
> chicken egg, because some dinosaurs laid eggs before the days of
> chickens.
>
> The evolution view would be that at some point something that wasn't
> a chicken (but was almost there) laid an egg, and from it emerged
> what we not consider to be the chicken. At this point you still have
> the question of whether the egg that the chicken hatched from counts
> as a chicken egg, in which case it is the chicken that came first, or
> is it considered to be a non-chicken egg, having been laid by a
> creature that was yet to be a chicken?
>
> I guess the real question is whether an egg is of the type of what
> hatches inside it, or what laid it.

I always thought I made up that answer myself.
:(

this topic has been done over a year ago.