What was first there, the chuck or the egg?
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Hi there,\n\nDo you mean 'chick'?\n\nIf yes, then here's my answer - \nI think the chick came first, because he egg is 'back' of the chick. (I mean, a chick lays egg with the help of its posterior end)\n\nIf you mean chuck, then I have to say the egg is first because there is no such thing as 'chuck' which lays an egg.\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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A team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.\n\nPut simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.\n\nTherefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.\n\nProfessor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.\n\nThe living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.\n\n"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."\n\nThe same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.\n\nMr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.\n\nHe told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.\n\n"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.\n\n"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."\n\nBourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.\n\nHe said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."
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If you are a creationist, like me, the chicken probably came first.\nIf you believe in evolution, then by that theory the egg would have come first.
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I would have to say either "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" or "What is the meaning of life?"
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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.
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the chiken .... but when she was little she came from an egg :)) so you figer it out !
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Breakfast: Scrambled eggs\nLunch or dinner: Fried chicken\n\nTherefore, the egg came first.
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All living things are created by God (or whatever higher power you believe in) so the chicken had to come first.  The egg is not alive yet.
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The egg. Dinosaurs lived before birds and they layed eggs. Therefore the egg came before the chicken. :)
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if u believe in evolution...then the egg...because it came from something that resembled a chicken but then transformed into a chicken\nif you believe in creation (such as myself) then the chicken...cause God made the chicken on that certain day!
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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.
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the egg. it was formed by organisms and eventually hatched.\n\ni first thought, well, if the chicken came first, it had to come from and egg, but then that egg would have to come from the chicken, then that chicken had to had come from and egg, and so on and forth
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It's an egg for sure. Wasn't that a riddle in "The Hobbit"?
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egg.........\n\nthe progenitors would not (quite) be chickens...
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actually, the egg came first. if the egg didn't come,then u would have no chicken.but that's what i think.
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The chicken. The Bible tells God created all living animals and then provided for them to reproduce. So the egg was how they reproduced.
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You mean ...what came first...Chicken or Egg...?