the answer is obviously egg. if you believe in evolution that is. all birds come from eggs. the evolutionary predocesser of the chicken had to be a bird too, so whatever extinct thing produced that chicken, had to have had a mutated egg to create the chicken, seeing as it was a bird too. i mean, if the chicken came first, it would have had an evolutionary predecessor that gave live birth.
Believe it or not, this was an extra credit question on an Earth History exam I had in college. "Based on your readings from Darwin & Gould, which came first, the chicken or the egg, and why?" Dr Barbara Ruff, GEO 112, if I remember correctly, and many beers have flowed beneath the bridge since then....Please, do not ask which way I jumped. Or why.
i have thought about this for awhile. i think the egg evolved into the chicken. i base this on the fact that, chickens are as dumb as fuck therefore, chickens have the IQ of an egg; so, therefore, chickens are eggs and, eggs are chickens. some eggs have not as of yet, evolved into chickens. of course, it might be the case that, not all chickens have as of yet, de-evolved into eggs.
But if the chicken is an egg, how does it lay another egg? Egg's have no exit tract. It'd just be making a stack-doll of eggs.
Actually, I've changed my mind, the chicken comes first, I was looking at it too simplistically. The chicken comes first, the egg then forms around the embryo.
Neither egg or chicken arrived on thier own. Whatever evolved into the chicken was already laying eggs. I actually saw a show today (technically I listened from the other room) about this. I think it was about Easter traditions but it brought up the age old question... and scientists have not concluded which came first or figured out the exact evolution of the chicken. ????
