The chicken or the egg?

DawnMc

Well? Which came first?

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

the stupid question?

Roar

whichever one was smoking a cigarette first...

boom boom...

johnnyrotten

Neither

AARRRGH

Jesus came first. He was chicken shaped.

Roar

got this from http://howstuffworks.com

In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

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so there..

Hagar

If you are Christian the Book of Genesis settles this arguement..

"And God said 'Let the Earth bring forth fowl'". That would be the chicken.
He didn't say "Let there be roundy sort of things, yeah eggs, let there be eggs"

AARRRGH

Roar wrote:

got this from http://howstuffworks.com

In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

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so there..

Try telling that to George Bush

ctrl-alt-delete

DawnMc wrote:

Well? Which came first?

the chicken...the egg hadnt reached sexual maturity yet

Big Knox

Eggs cant just come to exsist.

Nor can chickens, but they can evolve from lesser life forms i assume. Probally totally wrong

GLaDOS

DawnMc wrote:

Well? Which came first?

Well, eggs came first, just not chicken eggs.

senordingdong

Yer awl wan came first.

Sparky

2 chickens mutated from mould in the ground and were bisexual, so they had male and female organs after one hatched an egg it made love with one of the parents and since the baby chicken was a male the next baby became a female and it evolved from there.


Right im off to dr demento now

The Free Man

do you not plant chickens??

Capt'n Midnight

chickens are only recently bred from south east asian jungle fowl by humans.
Fossilised egs have been found millions of years old.
or billions if you use a looser definintion of "egg"

also eggs are not known to orgasm.