what came first the chicken or the egg?

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Henry Longshank said:
(Genesis 1:24) And God said. “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

(Genesis 1:25) And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

The chicken.
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And behold as satan lay the egg of the first chick.
Thus it came to be yada yada yada, bs, bs, bs.
 

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I think we have strayed from the point, and the point is the egg came first:p
 

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obviously the egg came first ...before chickens existed there were animals who layed eggs.... the question was not what came first the chicken or the chicken egg ... who dug this one back out anyhow i thought it was dead and was glad of it.
 

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zoanthid said:
... who dug this one back out anyhow i thought it was dead and was glad of it.
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Sorry, I was doing a search for 'eggs' RE the 'Conspiracy' quest and came across it...

EDIT haha, actually gizmo501 posted before me - woo, not my fault!
 
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ok this is good

http://www.ask.com/bar?q=what+came+first+the+chicken+or+the+egg%3F&page=1&qsrc=0&ab=0&u=http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/ said:
Chicken and egg debate unscrambled

LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.

"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."

The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD
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here is a link to it http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/
 
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