ForumsWEPRWhich came first, the chicken or the Egg.Is the answer just common sense?

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crimsonblade55
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The classic argument over which came first.I wanted to bring this up, because I was thinking a little bit and realized something.Why do scientist believe that the egg came first, if it had no mother to lay it, then keep it warm, and also after the eggs hatched they would have no way of surviving on their own without a parent to take care of them.So why do some scientist think this way when it is common sense that the chicken came first.I want to here your opinions on this matter.

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Estel
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You do know that this is just a saying right?

This simply refers to if there is creationism or evolution.

crimsonblade55
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Hmm well actually last time I checked it wasn't but I haven't really looked too far into it.I think we had a discussion about it in Biology before so last time I checked I don't think its just a saying.

Estel
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Well thin about it. Which came first, a fully grown chicken or the egg? Was the chicken just created out of nowhere (creationism) or did it grow soming from an egg (evolution) Yes, it seems that the evolution part doesn't directly relate to evolution, but it grew into the chicken.

BASHA
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no it would be the egg

TotalReview
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This simply refers to if there is creationism or evolution.


I don't really see how. In a way, I see the difference but which one would be evolution? Would it be the chicken since it evolved from the egg?
Drace
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Evolution would be the chicken being mutant from its previous species, so it would grow up as a chicken from the egg.

Estel
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Of course it wasn't suddenly, but yes, the egg is evolution.

That's how I always perceived that saying, so if true, than this will just become another creationism/evolution debate :O

zerato5
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i think its the chicken beacuse if its not the chicken then how did the egg get there?

Lilboi3000
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The answer is a circle.

Darkroot
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The answer is evolution a single celled organism evolved into a chicken. So the single celled pre-chicken came first so the chicken basically came first.

If you religious and don't believe in evolution this question is an unsolvable paradox.

TotalReview
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OH MY GOD I KNOW THE ANSWER! The answer is the chicken.

Read that sentence again.

Drace
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i think its the chicken beacuse if its not the chicken then how did the egg get there?


The previous species of a chicken. Being more specific of what Darkroot said.

The answer is evolution a single celled organism evolved into a chicken.
SuperzMcShort
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he answer is evolution a single celled organism evolved into a chicken.


It was actually more like a organism similar to a chicken had offspring via laying an egg which in turn had offspring and so on until eventually the offspring which was the modern chicken that we know, thus the egg coming first as chickens didn't evolve directly from single celled organisms but rather from already living organisms that had characteristics similar to chickens (though if you follow the chain back long enough you do eventually come back to simple single celled organisms).
im_tha_man
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It's like asking if the glass is half empty or half full? lol well the answer for mine would be both but obviously the chicken came first =)

Graham
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I think the egg came first because it was some sort of mutated bird that was a girl, when it layed more, then more mutated/normal birds were born until they mated with eachother and etc.

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