• Question: what comes first the chicken or the egg because I thought the egg but where dose the egg come from the chicken but where dose the chicken come from the EGG!!!!!!!! Please answer this question I KEED TO KNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!

    Asked by janet12332 to Stephanie, LauraAnne, Katy, Helen, Emilia, Dan, Andrew on 4 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by NIamh 13 Pets!!!.
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      Dan Gordon answered on 4 Nov 2016:

      Oh Janet, what a question. This is a deep philosophical question. I will give you my thought on it, see what you think. I would argue the egg. Why? Well if you think of evolution and assume that Darwin was correct than all species would have start from microscopic organisms living in some primordial Ouse. Over time these tiny structures would interact leading to different structures. So now lets come forward a million or so years. This process would have started to generate creatures that roamed the world such as the dinosaurs which of course are early relatives to bird and in particular the chicken. So now two of these start to mate and their genetic codes interact and hey presto we get an egg which contains the first chicken. Hence I would argue the chicken came first.

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      LauraAnne Furlong answered on 4 Nov 2016:

      That’s a tough one! If you think about that deeply, that even reflects how the world and universe came to be in the first place. Dan’s got a great answer, but does it depend on which chicken we are talking about? Are we talking about a the chicken right here now, or the chicken a generation ago?

      Another argument that the egg came first is that assuming we are talking about a chicken that is currently here, it has to have come from an egg. This egg will have come from something that was definitely chicken-like, but not an identical copy of the current chicken? This ties in with what Dan has mentioned, the chicken as we know it didn’t just appear, it was the result of evolution over millions of years. So on the day ‘chickens’ appeared, they came from an egg, but that egg was from chicken-like parents, not necessarily the chicken as we know it.

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      Katy Griggs answered on 6 Nov 2016:

      I completely agree with Laura and was the answer I was going give. In line with evolution, I believe the egg came first but from “chicken-like” parents.

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      Emilia McAllister-Jepps answered on 6 Nov 2016:

      Hi Janet, good question!

      I am not too sure, but in my daily routine, the eggs come first and then chicken…for breakfast and then lunch!

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