The Chicken or the Egg?

Which came first?

 

some kind of primeval chicken had to exist for the egg to be laid

 

Proteins which actually form both... That's what I read somewhere lol... So to answer your question: neither.

 

Well out of stupidity i have to say the egg, out of the egg a chicken is made so it cant be vice versa, as how to egg is made i don't have a clue, proteins if Ashaxx is correct.

 

Everyone who posted above is wrong, it was the chicken.

Scientists found that a protein found only in a chicken's ovaries was vital for the formation of the egg. In other words, the egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_or_the_egg

 

Can a chicken egg hatch/survive on its own?

 

I'm pretty sure it has to be kept in a warm and safe place, I don't think it'd survive just by itself somewhere.

 

This thread is stupid.

Evolutionarily it would have to be the egg because a chicken did not lay the first chicken egg.

 

But how did the egg crack itself, they need the chicken's ass for warmth. Therefore, the chicken came first.

 

You don't get it. Due to mutations in the formation of the egg itself some sort of pre-chicken laid the egg and hatched it. It then became the chicken we know now. It's basic evolution. Then assuming that some sort of egg laying animal usually has more than one offspring at a time it would create a small chicken population that would interbreed. The chances that it would happen are near nil but so was the formation of a life sustaining planet. So it happens.

 

A load of cobblers if you ask me the chicken came first, period.

 

There had to have been some sort of chicken predecessors, prior to the egg.

 

So basically what you're saying is "out of nowhere, human!" to give another example.

Mutations take place at conception, so the egg was first.

 

Sigh...I love how everyone thinks they're experts on this subject, when in fact, actual scientists tested and concluded that it was the chicken that was first.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3823868...which-came-first-chicken-or-egg/#.UET8ekK3nWE

 

Yes, but even if we've only found that protein in modern day chickens, it doesn't mean that it couldn't have been present in any chicken ancestors. In essence, the article you gave still doesn't deny the evolutionary theory that the egg came first. It's very simple - the "chicken-like" animal that laid the first, actual chicken egg (extinct to this day) may have had that ovarian protein as well.

 

Then there is the premise that evolution is true...

If you assume creationism, then it's simple.
God created the animals. Thus, chicken. =D

 

I think I agree with Emperor Nero that the egg came first. Idk though ugh my head hurts!

 

Wait the Chicken obviously came first right? how could an egg even be made without a chicken laying it

 

Well look at it this way

For humans you cant have a baby without a fetus...