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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

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I don't know, somebody help me!
 

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God created chicken, which created eggs I believe.
Or he created eggs.
I don't remember well.
 

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The mistake is to believe the chicken arrived in a flash of light at a particular point in time.
It seems likely that what weren't chickens, were already laying eggs before chickens laid eggs, and before they became chickens.:)
So, there were eggs before there were chickens.
Who's this god person?
 

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The mistake is to believe the chicken arrived in a flash of light at a particular point in time.
It seems likely that what weren't chickens, were already laying eggs before chickens laid eggs, and before they became chickens.:)
So, there were eggs before there were chickens.
Who's this god person?

Coral like animals were laying them 600 million years ago, according to this... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070123092655.htm
 

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Sorry about the post above. One of the chickens read the OP and thought it an easy enough question for her to answer. :p:D
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What if the answer is 42?
 

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Chickens or eggs first I do not know. But if you really look into the eyes of a rooster you will see pure evil.
 

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You think to deterministic try to think in a superposition than Both are true. Spock would think like this i guess.:facepalm:
Dr. Manhattan?
 

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The comic figuere i'm listening right now at the remaster of Jimmy Hendrix Electric ladyland sound is also behind me And i'm using nothing probably by the end of the album i got your answer.o_O
 
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The egg came first - by a billion years or more
 

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Chris Langan says, in an essay that isn't available online anymore:
The question “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” looks at first glance like a matter of straightforward reproductive biology. But before we can even begin to answer this question, we must define our terms. So actually, it is a classic case of semantic ambiguity… a problem of meaning and interpretation. Specifically, while the term “chicken” is biologically unambiguous – we all know what a chicken looks, sounds and tastes like – the term “egg” is somewhat more general and is therefore a possible source of ambiguity. Do we mean (1) just any egg, or (2) a chicken egg? And if we’re talking about a chicken egg, then is a “chicken egg” (2a) an egg laid by a chicken, (2b) an egg containing a chicken, or (2c) both? Reformulating the question to reflect each possible meaning of “egg” leads to four distinct versions of the chicken-or-egg question.

1. Which came first, the chicken or (just any old) egg?

2a. Which came first, the chicken or an egg laid by a chicken?

2b. Which came first, the chicken or an egg containing a chicken?

2c. Which came first: the chicken, or an egg laid by and containing a chicken?

Contrary to popular belief, there is indeed a definite answer to each of these questions. Specifically, the answers are: (1) The egg. (2a) The chicken. (2b) The egg. (2c) The chicken
 

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Parthenogenesis.

And that's my final answer.
 

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I'm struggling to say something intelligent here, but definitvely is beyond my capacity :facepalm:
 
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