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If the egg was first there would be nothing to fertilize it, lay it, or incubate it.
Christian Bible: God created all the animals full-grown
Evolution: a creature wouldn't evolve into an egg, it would evolve into another creature (chicken)*
Any way you look at it, the chicken was first."
*This isn't necessarily true (still, however, it IS one possibility).
Evolution works through mutations- mutations that can occur whether the chicken is freshly laid, full grown, or even only being developed in the mother's womb. Therefore, the "first chicken" COULD have been developed at ANY stage of life; and to further muddle the answer, it would have been difficult to tell exactly which "chicken" was the "first."
This is because evolution happens slowly- tiny variations that would still make the offspring a part of the original species in almost all aspects, except for one tiny difference. For example, it would be hard to classify whether the chicken that reached it's modern size was the first "true chicken," or if it was the first one that developed feathers, or, or, or...
In fact, what likely would have happened would have been that a group of "chickens" slowly developed into what we consider a chicken today; therefore there wouldn't be one single first, but rather a group (and it could be one of any of the individuals within that group that became the first).
A further complication is that chickens ARE domesticated animals bred for different purposes, and so there are separate "races" of them within the same species that all evolved at different times (however, because they can all still breed, they are still considered the same species).
In summary- it's impossible to tell. It's about as easy to answer (and actually pretty analogous to) as the question "when and where was the first house built?" There are different types of homes, and they all pretty much happened in different places, and does a cave count as a home?; how about a conveniently shady tree?; etc., etc.
The egg came first... kind of. Basically, a long, long time ago two birds that weren't really chickens created the first chicken egg.
The egg came first. Eggs have been around for millions of years, laid by animals that were not quite chickens. Over time, evolution led to the development of what we now recognize as chickens, so the first chicken would have hatched from an egg.
god made the chicken and the chicken made an egg OR Dinosaurs laid eggs before the chicken Yellow pineapples purple monkeys in space
technically, the chicken should have come first because if you look at it from the bible's point of view- God created all the animals first, not eggs flying from the sky. he first created a chicken which layed an egg. But we are probably all wrong and something else happened- lol
Simialry to the chicken and the egg question, neither did the chicken nor he egg come first, they co exsited in harmony. Your question sucks, please refresh your thinking please.
the egg because dinos lay eggs
the egg came first because where are you going to get the chicken if their is no egg... you can't get a chicken out of thin air ...you need a egg to get the first chicken.... then that chicken lays a egg ...then that one does , then the next and so on...the earth's matter made up the first egg....kill the first chicken...you'll still have a egg to get another chicken...kill the first egg.... chickens would cease to ''egg-sist''(exsist).The egg came first from another animal that adapted into the chicken. Kind of like how humans came from monkeys.
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either the egg or the chicken came first. of course, god couldve put an egg on the earth, and it couldve hatched into a chicken, or the chicken couldve came first and hatched an egg...
It is a philosophical question without a definitive answer. Some believe the egg came first, as mutations in the reproductive cells of an earlier species led to the first chicken egg. Others argue that the first chicken must have hatched from an egg, so the egg came first.
a chicken? its like the question: what came 1st, an egg or a chicken.
I think the egg came first-not nessacerikly a chickens egg but an egg may have come first I think the chicken came first because, the chicken evolved from soemthing that wasnt a chicken and once it was a chicken it had an egg. but the egg the chickn came from had a chicken in... im confused This is one of those questions that has been debated for years. We may never know the answer...or perhaps we now do. In 2006 a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer say they have the answer. It was the egg. See link.
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dude, i think the answer is pretty obvious. the chicken came first. i am a christian, and i think The Lord God would create a chicken, not an egg to become the first chicken. imagine an egg without a mother to raise it. so go rub it in your buddies' faces that you know the answer to the ancient chicken and egg riddle.