What came first, the Chicken or the Egg?
94696
chicken, because God created chicken not egg
694977
Apparently the chicken came first.  Then the eggs.  According to Genesis anyway.
435774
Well, if we're going by the Theory of Evolution, the egg.  As the chicken's ancestors were slowly evolving to the current form of chicken, the last one who's DNA was  99.9999999999999999999% similar to the modern chicken layed an egg which contained 100% chicken.  So, the egg came first.
849398
The hen (chicken) came first.  The hen layed an egg and had to sit on the egg in order for it to hatch.  If there were an egg first, how would it have hatched?  Look at it this way: Did God put Adam and Eve in the garden or  sperm and ovum?
219004
In my opinon.. the first chicken egg pre-dated the first chicken.\n\nAt one point there was a creature that was only one mutation away from being it chicken - it was ALMOST a chicken.  It mutated and then laid an egg that expressed the mutation by hatching into the worlds first full fledged chicken.\n\nThis question can be argued so many ways...  of course, if you don't accept the theory of evolution, my arguement is meaningless.
672312
My guess: chickens evolved from animals who breed via eggs, so eggs were first. Like there was one animal similiar to a chicken, that one day dropped an egg, and out of the egg came the first chicken. Or something like that...
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
159512
The chicken because God created all of the animals first.  The egg came shortly after. :D
118113
Chicken. There was some bird that was not a chicken which was the first to evolve into a chicken. Thus the first true chicken occured before any true chicken eggs appeared.
592122
The chicken had to of come first. The chicken is what god created. If the egg came first then there would be no way for it to survive alone. Just like the questio n "What came first, the child or the parent?" Adam and Eve were the first 2 people on earth, they had the first baby. So it has been said. I don't know what you believe... but the answer is the CHICKEN.
193309
the egg, because before hens existed there were proto-hens that laid eggs as well. One day one of those proto-hens evolved and the first hen was born.
541818
The chicken came first
366427
The egg came first, because before there were any chickens at all, there was the species that mutated/evolved into the chicken (some sort of dinosaur, no doubt). That species was invariably an egg laying creature, and therefore, there were eggs long before there were chickens.
99175
Chicken (Gallus domesticus) didn't exist until its domestication around 2000 BC in Indochina. The first chicken came from the first chicken egg, which was laid by a red junglefowl (Gallus gallus). Whether you argue creation or evolution, the fact that humanity predates and is responsible for the speciation of chickens from red junglefowl should lay the "chicken or the egg" question to rest. \n\nFrom an evolutionary perspective, this answer holds for all species: the first member(s) of any species were the offspring of another very similar species, i.e. evolution argues that the egg always comes first. \n\nFrom a creationist perspective, this answer is anomalous, since all species that predate humanity originated as adults around 4004 BCE, i.e. creationism argues that the red junglefowl came before the red junglefowl egg.\n\nHowever, here is also an intersting analysis: Scientists think the first domestic chickens were bred from Red Jungle Fowls more than 8,000 years ago in the region now divided into Thailand and Vietnam. People bred chickens first for cockfighting contests, later for eggs and meat.\n\nSo the first official "chicken" pecked its way out of an egg laid by a bird that was not-quite-a-chicken. Depending on how you look at it, the egg--or the wild chicken--came first.\n\nIn creating the domestic chicken--and coming up with some 175 varieties--human beings also created a world where chickens rule the roost: There are more chickens than any other kind of domesticated bird on Earth.\n\nAnd where did birds come from? Scientists think that a group of egg-laying feathered dinosaurs were probably the ancestors of today's birds. So if it weren't for dinosaurs, there wouldn't be any Jungle Fowl OR chickens.\n\nWe've solved the riddle of where chickens came from. But there's still the question of where eggs came from.\n\nScientists say eggs--handy miniature incubators of life, nutrients already packed inside--evolved more than 1 billion years ago, in the oceans of Earth. When land animals evolved about 250 million years ago, their eggs had a tough covering to retain moisture on dry land. Egg-layers like amphibians, reptiles, and insects flourished. The first "land eggs" pre-dated chickens by about 249,992,000 years.\n\nSo "the egg" may be one answer to the old riddle, but here's another, if a little longer: The chicken came after the bird, the bird came after the dinosaur, the dinosaur came after the egg. And the egg came long after the first single-celled bacteria, the prokaryotes, evolved in the oceans, some 3.5 billion years ago. Ha!
663991
The egg.\nBefore chickens evloved into chickens, they were some other species that laid egss.\nOf course, if you are a creationist, you'll dispute that.
63835
Scientifically speaking, the egg must have come first because there was a non-chicken animal that evolved into a chicken, and the only way for that non-chicken animal to have evolved into a chicken is if there was a mutation during meiosis (reproduction). So the non-chicken animal would have laid an egg which became a chicken.
53344
Which came first - the chicken or the egg? \n\n"The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. \n\nIf the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.