What Came First The Chicken Or The Egg?

[Wrathchild]

my mom pulled this bullshit on me, for me to think about. dont really want to think on the weekends so the poll is open

i vote who really gives a fuck

[flaherty]

i vote you stop posting stupid fucking polls!

[stjoe]

Originally Posted by flaherty

i vote you stop posting stupid fucking polls!

I vote that probably won't happen, so my answer is going to be 'I ate the chicken, and then I ate its leg."

[Wrathchild]

Originally Posted by flaherty

i vote you stop posting stupid fucking polls!

i vote you shuting the fuck up i can post whatever i want bi-atch

[the big lebowski]

the chicken. there. it's decided. we can all move on.

[Brend_duh]

I think that some different bird like creature layed an egg, that mutated....and hatched into what we know as the chicken. Of course it wouldnt be like the chickens that we think of today, evolution plays its part during the course of time. Col. Sanders has also contributed to the chickens evolutionary process.....his chickens have three breasts, cant walk, and get beaten all day....but boy do they taste good. Well thats my hypothesis...".mutant egg gives way to chicken"...and who cares

[addicted2life]

I think they both came together from Walmart or somthing
and With all this bird flu and shit who cares...

[decola]

depends. If you're religious, the chicken, if your an empiricist than the egg (I would assume).

[paul_r]

Originally Posted by Brend_duh

I think that some different bird like creature layed an egg, that mutated....and hatched into what we know as the chicken. Of course it wouldnt be like the chickens that we think of today, evolution plays its part during the course of time. Col. Sanders has also contributed to the chickens evolutionary process.....his chickens have three breasts, cant walk, and get beaten all day....but boy do they taste good. Well thats my hypothesis...".mutant egg gives way to chicken"...and who cares

+5 to Brend_duh

"It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.

"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs.""
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/

[jwdd27]

Originally Posted by paul_r

+5 to Brend_duh

"It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents.

"I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs.""
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/

There you go, Wrathchild - learn that and go back to your Mom with the information. That way she'll think you're learning from the internet and not wasting time getting involved in pointless arguments with people who are smarter and older than you. Go for it kid