What came first? The chicken or the egg?

That makes no sense.

Alien interaction.......... pregnant chicken escaped from ship

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The chicken, no the egg, no the chicken, no the egg. It's enough to make your head spin right off your neck. We’ve all been through the logic; most of us end up at the same place. As Luna Lovegood, the dreamy yet dotty witch from Harry Potter put it when asked the riddle, "a circle has no beginning." And indeed, attempting to identify the first case of a circular cause and consequence is an exercise in utter futility. For those who don’t have a pat story involving a divine being who spits out perfectly formed species, it's a no-win situation.

But that doesn’t stop us from asking. Luckily for people kept awake at night by such quandaries, NPR’s Robert Krulwich recently got to the bottom of the dilemma when he, thankfully, stumbled across the video below.

Basically, many, many moons ago there was a chicken-like bird. It was genetically close to a chicken, but wasn’t a full-blown chicken yet. Krulwich calls it a proto-chicken. So proto-hen laid an egg, and proto-rooster fertilized it. But when the genes from ma and pa almost-chicken fused, they combined in a new way, creating a mutation that accidently made the baby different from its parents. Although it would take millennia for the difference to be noticed, that egg was different enough to become the official progenitor of a new species, now known as … the chicken! So in a nutshell (or an eggshell, if you like), two birds that weren’t really chickens created a chicken egg, and hence, we have an answer: The egg came first, and then it hatched a chicken.

Maybe the question we should be asking is: Which came first, the proto-chicken or the proto-chicken egg? --http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/finally-answered-which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg

I think he is referencing the theory that modern chickens evolved from dinosaurs over millions of years. Dinosaurs laid eggs, so the creature that modern day chickens evolved from probably laid eggs. Therefore, the egg comes first.

EDIT: did you watch that video that was posted? It's a pretty cool one.

I think dinosaurs laid eggs... since dinosaurs lived in a time way before chickens, the egg came first...

Case closed.

Dang! You beat me to it...

We have come a long way indeed. Modern science has allowed bipedal cats to wear snazzy yellow jackets!


YAY SCIENCE

one of Carlynns science nerds

I am nobody's science nerd but my own

thats nice, but wasnt refering to u, but to the cat

Awwww, I don't know why, but now I am kinda sad

if you go with the bible, then the chicken came first as "God" created animals themselves, not eggs and stuff, he created adults not babies, if you go with Science the the egg... or the chicken! x.x
but who knows!

as u should be, an ego is a sad thing when deflated

What came first? The chicken or your face?

typical politician, once they get ur vote, they r no longer nice

My answer is....
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My answer to the OP's question.... Whichever one God made first