Chicken or the Egg?

[Alfredo11]

Which do you think came first? I think the chicken because something had to lay the egg.  

[Iconised Ghost]

My science teacher at school had a serious theory about this...i cant remember what it was, it was a long time ago, but i think that he thought the chicken came first, it evolved from amoeba into a bigger thing into a bigger thing until it became a chicke and evolved egg laying capabilities. I may be wrong. But i think thats how it went...  

[The Shadow Ninja Junichi]

personally.. i think it was the egg.. because something could have layed the egg with the first chicken in it.. but that thing might not have been exactly a chicken.. more like a wierd lizard chicken thingy... but... thats just my thought  

[Iconised Ghost]

but what came first then, the egg or the weird lizard chicken thing?  

[overlordoffinland]

it was the egg, and the pre-evolved form of the chicken which laid it. then after that, there were chickens  

[Iconised Ghost]

i just cant see how an egg would evolve, without it being an organism first  

[Googolplexian]

Evolution is caused by random genetic mutation, therefore the egg with the chicken would have come first, its parents frowning in shame for giving birth to a mutant. smile  

[Deimoz]

Googolplexian

Evolution is caused by random genetic mutation, therefore the egg with the chicken would have come first, its parents frowning in shame for giving birth to a mutant. smile

Oh jeez. I have to agree . . . with that whole statement >.<
Our social status problems date back to the chickens.

Ok sorry. I'm done being stupid.

Anyways, if you're thinking of the Chicken that we know today then you have to think that the egg came first (like with the above quote), but if you are thinking a earlier "version" of the chicken, then you would think the "chicken" came first, because the egg would have to come from somewhere. (if this didn't make any sense please just tell me I'm stupid >.<)  

[Officer Hot-Pants]

Maybe it was some sort of little Sheldon-thingy.

You know, the little chicken that wouldn't come out of his shell on that old Garfield Cartoon Show...  

[Iconised Ghost]

I think that maybe it started with something (lets call it a Spoog) that laid an egg. Then out of that egg hatched something similar to a Spoog, but slightly different (lets called it a mutated spoog). The mutated spoog laid an egg that looked like a mutated spoog, but slightly different. And this continued until something laid an egg that hatched into a chicken >.< so the organism came first....but the first chicken came from an egg so the egg came first...  

[dizSASQUA]

the chican came first  

[lu_rockz]

i think that they were there at the same time and one died and one grew and died life circal  

[xxxxxJohnxxxxx]

The egg came first laid by something like a chicken, but not really a chicken cool  

[mehmeh0000]

in our religion..


the bible sed...the chicken was the first..



in science...the chicken..



what do you think if the is the FIRST??


if it hatch do you think it will LIVE??  

[WastelandMama]

the egg came first.

dinosaurs were laying them for eons. then they slowly evolved into chickens who ALSO laid eggs.

what a goofy question! 3nodding

((although, to be honest, i sometimes throw this question out to my kiddos to see what they say...when i tell them it was the egg and WHY it was the egg, it blows their cute little minds. whee ))