It was the egg.

[rug]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/02/11/171706769/the-egg-makes-its-move-in-a-new-version-of-which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-e

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Are you voting??

[rug]

2. Thanks for the reminder.

[Angry Dragon]

3. You are welcome

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. I have always argued that it was the chicken first

Because if it had been the egg first, there would have been no one to sit on it and keep it warm until it hatched.

Seems simple to me.

[Major Nikon]

7. Church fathers would agree with you

According to Genesis, god created animals first and not their reproductive mechanisms. Science says eggs existed thousands of years before chickens.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. huh??? I'll take science over the Babble any day, but

this is one I don't get?


They must have been talking about some other egg, not chickens', for one thing

[HarveyDarkey]

5. !!!

[baldguy]

6. Eggs have been around for about a billion years - chickens only 65 million.

Eggs came first.

[rug]

9. Agreed.

Here's a summary of my argument.

Genetic mutations appear in the next generation. Therefore, the egg must contain the embryo of true chicken, mutated from the protoro-rooster and the proto-hen.

While it may be argued that chicken ovaries are becessary for a chicken egg, the proto-hen may yet be unevolved in other areas sufficient to deny her the title of true chicken.

So there, you egg doubters.

[bigwillq]

10. Egg (nt)