What came first the chicken or the egg?
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The egg came first. Creatures evolved. There was once a chicken-dinosaur like creature, or maybe something like that, maybe not dinosaur, but whether it was from dinosaurs, or avians, or both, I can't remember... But there was something before the chicken, it had an egg, but there was a genetic mutation in the genes of the baby chick due to adaptation or just accident. Anyways, when the mutated chick hatched from the egg, the chicken as we know it came about.
598261
The egg came first.  At some time in the evolutionary development of the chicken as we know it, there was some previous creature that was not quite a chicken.  Let's call this a "proto-chicken".  In the ovary of the proto-chicken, which is always subject to some small amount of mutation, it carries all the genes that would make a proto-chicken, but it gets mutated to form what we think of as a chicken.  The egg is laid, and when it hatches, it will become a chicken.  Thus, the proto-chicken which laid the egg is not a chicken, but the egg will produce a chicken, so the egg came first.
995819
I think the chicken evolved from something else (or God created the chicken), and the chicken was made to then reproduce. And then from the reproduction came the egg. Because you see, a egg can come from a chicken, but an egg cannot be created without a chicken. A chicken can evolve from other animals, but it cannot come from an egg originally.
57779
actually, the egg came first. if the egg didn't come,then u would have no chicken.but that's what i think.
911397
Reptiles were laying shelled eggs for millions of years before some of them evolved into birds - and chickens came even later than that. So, by the time the first chicken laid the first chicken egg, eggs were already ancient. If your question is supposed to pertain only to chicken eggs, then obviously a species and its reproductive cells evolve simultaneously. Neither of them can exist before the other.
484490
If you believe that Genesis is the literal origin of the universe, then God created the Chicken.\n\nIf you believe in evolution, then a protochicken laid an egg, which hatched the first real chicken as we know it.
668690
From the bible,especially the book of Genesis which talks about creation, We have not been told that God created an egg but all birds and from there it is the bird that layed the egg therefore, it is the chicken which came first and we cannot doubt that.
1162531
Actually this has a real answer. According to the book "Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or so) Absolutely True Tidbits About (mostly) Everything" by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo the egg came first.\n\nAccording to their research chickens evolved from early Indochina birds called red jungle fowl. Mutations in the jungle fowls eggs produced things more like chickens...these bred with other bird causing more mutations producing todays chicken.\n\nSo the eggs have it!
645833
The Chicken/hen came first.\n\nGenesis 1:20  And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
770895
The chick is hatched before it becomes a hen, just as a person is a baby before he or she is an adult. I wonder if you meant to ask "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" I believe the chicken came first because it was created by God.
267464
The egg, because chickens are the result of evolution, so the egg is the correct answer
477334
God created the chicken first.  If you don't believe in God then it would still be impossible for the egg to have come first.
43739
In evolutionary terms, a chicken was first hatched from an egg of a slightly different animal.  Therefore, the egg came first.
532307
Eggs are traditionally eaten for breakfast, while chicken is more commonly eaten for lunch or dinner.\n\nSo the egg would come first, with the chicken making its appearance at a later meal.\n\nUnless you make a chicken omelet, in which case the egg and chicken come at the same time.
997503
Which came first the chicken or the egg?\nThe egg is in the chicken and the chicken is in the egg.\nThey came as one.\n\nHeaven for one may well be Hell for another, and Hell for one may be Heaven for another.  Heaven and Hell make one Kingdom...\nThey came as one.\n\nYes and No...\nThey came as one.
490805
egg then chick then hen.\nThe Hen that laid the egg which developed into the species we now call the domestic chicken was slightly different from our chicken. Hence the egg came first!\n\nJ
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the hen came first because God made the animal and the animal layed the egg...that'a my theory :)