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We don't have chicken-eggs. We just have chickens and eggs. So I imagine they used to be one thing... Like AMERICANS, chicken-eggs. But now they are Democrats and Republicans. ~Trying To Figure Out What Came First
 
dirtpoorchris said:
We don't have chicken-eggs. We just have chickens and eggs. So I imagine they used to be one thing... Like AMERICANS, chicken-eggs. But now they are Democrats and Republicans. ~Trying To Figure Out What Came First
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The classic reply to the chicken-egg question is: "The Rooster"

Just sayin'
 
Well there's one huge problem with this digging of the shin.

You can't have a fertilized egg without a chicken, and you can't have a chicken without a fertilized egg.

Think about it.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
We don't have chicken-eggs. We just have chickens and eggs. So I imagine they used to be one thing... Like AMERICANS, chicken-eggs. But now they are Democrats and Republicans. ~Trying To Figure Out What Came First
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Ancient Herald said:
Well there's one huge problem with this digging of the shin.

You can't have a fertilized egg without a chicken, and you can't have a chicken without a fertilized egg.

Think about it.
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The correct answer is "neither". What preceded chickens was millions upon millions of generations of evolution, each generation becoming a little bit more like the chickens we see today. It was a continuous process that can be traced all the way back to simple bacterial life.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
The correct answer is "neither". What preceded chickens was millions upon millions of generations of evolution, each generation becoming a little bit more like the chickens we see today. It was a continuous process that can be traced all the way back to simple bacterial life.
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If so then we have an answer:

Is bacterial life more similar to a chicken or an egg? :)
 
DDD said:
Actually, the chickens do not "cross" the road, they just animate a walking sequence while the road moves beneath it.
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I knew it!!
 
RabidAlpaca said:
The correct answer is "neither". What preceded chickens was millions upon millions of generations of evolution, each generation becoming a little bit more like the chickens we see today. It was a continuous process that can be traced all the way back to simple bacterial life.
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Actually that is the incorrect answer;. Evolution is the scientific answer, but the chicken or the egg is not a scientific question, but a philosophical one.

And there is very little correct or incorrect answers in a philosophical discussion.

And if science is the only answer, then that makes science a religion.

\Because only religion operates with an iron hand of authority, and science is not supposed to be a religion. But it is often treated as one.


Oh, and the chicken crossed the road to get away from the pervert.
 
Ancient Herald said:
Actually that is the incorrect answer;. Evolution is the scientific answer, but the chicken or the egg is not a scientific question, but a philosophical one.

And there is very little correct or incorrect answers in a philosophical discussion.

And if science is the only answer, then that makes science a religion.

\Because only religion operates with an iron hand of authority, and science is not supposed to be a religion. But it is often treated as one.
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But bacteria are closer to eggs in similarity compared to the chicken?

Why would anyone treat science as religion? That is, where is the dogma in science so as people to treat it as religion?

Ancient Herald said:
Oh, and the chicken crossed the road to get away from the pervert.
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Freud?
 
My completely unscientific and anecdotal musings are that somewhere along the way, large animals acquired the ability to carry smaller, undeveloped animals (babies, eggs) inside of them. Bacteria and fetuses develop similarly, by dividing cells. Bacteria simply divide their one cell into millions of those cells, and a fetus does too, but also creates cells of a different structure to form various parts of the body and then multiplies those cells.

So my thought is that somewhere in the evolutionary chain, organisms (when they were still only in the infancy of multi-celled organisms) began to take on more complex forms, and couldn't grow from a single cell into a fully formed organism without the assistance of another multi-celled organism as a host.

So in my scenario, the "chicken" (host) would have come first. Then, after enough infant multi-cell organisms died off while trying to incubate into adult multi-cell organisms, the more developed multi-celled organisms adapted to hosting their young within themselves until they were developed enough to live outside on their own.

Disclaimer : I have done no research whatsoever on this subject.
 
Well, since dinosaurs laid eggs, and dinosaurs preceded chickens by a considerable margin, then I would say the egg came first.

If we wish to stipulate chicken eggs, specifically, that leads us to an entirely different conversation.
 
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