Who came first, the rooster or the hen?
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First came a rooster named Adam, then a hen named Eve.
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Actually, first came the rooster and the chicken. A chicken alone cannot lay fertilized eggs. It takes fertilized eggs to have more chickens and roosters.\n\nIf the egg came first, it would have died. There would have been no one to fertilize it, lay it, or hatch it. If a lone chicken, by some miracle had hatched from said egg, there would have been no roosters to fertilize more eggs, thus no more chickens or eggs.\n\nIf it is true that such an egg existed, that needed no care, fertilization, or hatching, we are degenerating rather than progressing. Our eggs are highly dependent in order to be of any use.
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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.
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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.
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This question had been debated about for centuries! Why do you expect someone to give you a straightforward answer right now! It's not like everyone is going to agree on this!\n\nBut, if you believe in the bible here....\nAccording to the bible, the chicken came first: "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 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.'" Genesis 1:10-20\n\nAlso.... this website has the full debate so you choose what you believe\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chicken_and...\n\nAlso....according to the dictionary the egg comes before the hen (alphabetical order)\n....according to safeway the chicken ( you see it before you see the eggs in the store)\n....according to McDonalds the egg (I's before the chicken on the menu)\n\nIt all depends on the way you look at things\nGood Luck!
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I've answered the exact same question before. The egg came first because there were dinosaur eggs before there were chickens. If you specifically mean chicken eggs, I'd say the chicken because:\nBible version: God made all the animals. He made 2 adult humans first so I guess he would have made the adult animals first too.\nEvolution version: Whatever the chicken was supposed to be evolved from, had an egg of it's own which came out as a chicken, only then were there chicken eggs because there hadn't been chickens to lay the eggs.
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God created the hen first in the days of Adam..............\nThen the hen laid the egg.
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It is the chicken that came first thats for sure. \n\nWhat i know is that, God created the chicken first in order for it to produce egg for more chickens.\n\nThe egg will not be able to do anything because it will first of all not be able to survive nature. And so it was definitely going to die.\n\nTHE CHICKEN ACTUALLY 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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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.
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The chicken came first
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Just depends on what you believe in.  If you believe in Adam and Eve then you believe the hen probably came first.  The bible states that god created everything in 7 days.  \n\nIf you believe in the egg first you believe in evolution.  The egg was probably a mutated form of a dinosaur.  The creature probably didnt look much like a bird, but over millions of years the thing evolved into a chicken
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Apparently the chicken came first.  Then the eggs.  According to Genesis anyway.
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Actually, first came the rooster and the chicken.  A chicken alone cannot lay fertilized eggs.  It takes fertilized eggs to have more chickens and roosters.\n\nIf the egg came first, it would have died.  There would have been no one to fertilize it, lay it, or hatch it.  If a lone chicken, by some miracle had hatched from said egg, there would have been no roosters to fertilize more eggs, thus no more chickens or eggs.\n\nIf it is true that such an egg existed, that needed no care, fertilization, or hatching, we are degenerating rather than progressing.  Our eggs are highly dependent in order to be of any use.
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well\nit's the same as follows:\ndid egg come first or a hen?\ni wish u find your answer.
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Definately the chicken. It is my belief that God created a mature universe. Adam was not created as a little boy nor was Eve created a little girl. Thus it is my belief that the chicken came before the egg.
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well it really depends on your religion. If you believe in God and that he created all things in the beginning, it would be the chicken because he created the animals first. If you don't believe in God, then there's really no answer unless the chicken slowly evolved to be an egg breeder, so that means teh chicken came first