You could argue that there could be no egg without a chicken, however I disagree. Birds of all different types lay eggs. Perhaps another creature laid the egg, however the combined genes of the parents were such that what came out is now most commonly referred to as a chicken.

My point is, the bird that laid the egg can change. Chickens don't just fall onto the earth.

Discuss.

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It's an argument in semantics more than anything else. Suppose we alter the question slightly--"Which came first: the chicken or the chicken egg?" What would you say then?

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Quote: from rosebud at 8:43 am on June 1, 2008

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It's an argument in semantics more than anything else. Suppose we alter the question slightly--"Which came first: the chicken or the chicken egg?" What would you say then?

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Another creture could lay what is now known as a chicken egg.

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Correct. A random genetic mutation would have occurred in the formation of the embryo that would result in a speciation discerning the chicken from anything else. So a non-chicken would be carrying the first genuine chicken in it's body until it lays that egg.

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Quote: from NoNoNora383 at 11:45 am on June 1, 2008

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Quote: from rosebud at 8:43 am on June 1, 2008

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It's an argument in semantics more than anything else. Suppose we alter the question slightly--"Which came first: the chicken or the chicken egg?" What would you say then?

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Another creture could lay what is now known as a chicken egg.

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Correct. A random genetic mutation would have occurred in the formation of the embryo that would result in a speciation discerning the chicken from anything else. So a non-chicken would be carrying the first genuine chicken in it's body until it lays that egg.

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Is the construction of the egg itself a result of the embryo's genome or the parent genome?

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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder" (Ralph W. Sockman)

Evolution. Its simple.

Something developed a mutation causing a chicken.

The egg played no part.

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Do It Because You Want To. Ignore whether others think its
'cool'. It probably is.

Creature evolves from small simple celled organisms
Creature now uses eggs to procreate.
Creature slowly evolves, the children in the eggs slowly change over time.
After some time, Creature has evolved into a chicken, and chickens continue to be born from eggs.

Egg came first.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.It's the transition
that's troublesome.   --Isaac Asimov

Therefore a fundamental chicken would be a cell as well . . .

Wait . . I'm getting confused .  . lmao . .

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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.

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What came first, God or the universe?  If God came before the Universe, where does God exist?  Also, where does God come from?  God would have to have been created by another superior power to even God itself, whether by evolution, or creation.

So which came first?  God, or a more powerful God?  And where did the more powerful God come from?

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