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POLL: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

I think that chickens came first, it is my hypothesis that chickens were once born live like other animals a long time ago, then slowly evolved to eggs.
 
Commonly beleived possibilities:
1) Evolution. A similar species layed a mutant egg which, when born, was a chicken.

2) God. God created an egg which, when born, was a chicken.

3) God. God created a chicken which later laid eggs.

The bible doesn't specify if #2 or #3 occured. Thus both have to be included.


Since I want to keep this a religion neutral thread, we'll give each option an equal chance of occuring. Therefore, it is a 66.6% chance of an egg that came first.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Commonly beleived possibilities:
1) Evolution. A similar species layed a mutant egg which, when born, was a chicken.

2) God. God created an egg which, when born, was a chicken.

3) God. God created a chicken which later laid eggs.

The bible doesn't specify if #2 or #3 occured. Thus both have to be included.


Since I want to keep this a religion neutral thread, we'll give each option an equal chance of occuring. Therefore, it is a 66.6% chance of an egg that came first.
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teh winn4r!
 
Since you did not specify "chicken egg" or chicken,

Eggs, as there were many species laying eggs millions, perhaps billions of years before chickens were around.
 
Neither. A species gradually evolves, we just group them together to make it simple for us to know a chicken when we see one. Its not like one day a "pre-chicken" laid an egg, and then a chicken came out of it.
 
The egg, wouldn't it? I mean if yo ulook at evolution, at one point, something that isn't a "chicken" would have laid the egg that the first chicke ncame out of.
 
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
The egg, wouldn't it? I mean if yo ulook at evolution, at one point, something that isn't a "chicken" would have laid the egg that the first chicke ncame out of.
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Bingo. The egg came first. It is not possible for an egg to change it's genetic makeup, but it would be possible for a non-(but nearly)-chicken to lay a chicken egg.
 
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
The egg, wouldn't it? I mean if yo ulook at evolution, at one point, something that isn't a "chicken" would have laid the egg that the first chicke ncame out of.
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Bingo. The egg came first. It is not possible for an egg to change it's genetic makeup, but it would be possible for a non-(but nearly)-chicken to lay a chicken egg.
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Sort of. Speciation is a bit arbitrary. You can say something is more chicken like or less chicken like, but what a chicken is is more of agreement amongst taxonomists than the actual genetic makeup of the chicken.

Every single organism is unique. Species are just a convenient way of organizing them.
 
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