the answer is they are both intrinsic to the field,ie the print in this message is black,but without any contrasting white you wouldnt see it.

yin yang zen buddhism alan watts

Chicken comes first before egg because chicken egg is phrased in this way not egg chicken.

http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/What_came_first__the_Chicken_or_the_egg

http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/What_came_first_the_chicken_or_the_egg_3

http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/What_came_first_the_Chicken_or_the_Egg_4

lets look at the big picture for a second. can the chicken exist without beforehand being an egg? No. Can the egg exist without the help of a chicken? No. therefore, I conclude that the chicken and the egg started existing at the exact same time. one cannot exist without the other. i am not a religious person, but i do believe there is something more sublime and beautiful that made this so. think about it. if you controlled a universe, wouldnt you do the same?

of course... use comon sense!

with out chickens there would be no eggs at all...

so chickens comes first than eggs!!!

chickens... HENS makes the eggs warm with out any chicken at all... how will eggs turn into a chicken without any hens taking care of it...

WE DONT WANT A DEAD CHICKEN HERE!

the answer is they are both intrinsic to the field,ie the print in this message is black,but without any contrasting white you wouldnt see it.

yin yang zen buddhism alan watts

Chicken came first, the egg was still hatching.

I think the chicken clearly had to come first. When God created the earth he created all the animals of the land and sea and birds of the sky. I can't imagine he would just create an egg and leave it to hatch with no chicken to care for it.

As with most creatures, I believe the chicken evolved from something else, as did the way it reproduced. If I had to take a gander, I would say both the "chicken" and the "egg" were present before they officially became the species as you see it today.

The chicken, as evolution would suggest to me that the first primative life forms arose from chemical reactions in the primordial soup of the Earth, and they were not eggs or anything that would hatch into life eventually.

chickens came first before eggs...

as it states in the bible...

god created the world in seven days...

he created chickens but not EGGS!!!

C'mon people?! the chicken evolved, like every other species. Eggs were already popular for reproduction by many species way before birds evolved.
I rest my case.

The first chicken would have had parents that weren't chickens. Some genetic mutation or random DNA blending would have caused their offspring to be different. So the first thing we could consider a chicken would be whatever was in the egg those pre-chickens gave birth to. In other words, evolution says the egg came first.

Definitely the egg, I back up the statement ahead of me which states that eggs were around long before chickens were around.

Due to the evolutionary process, it can be said that there was once an egg from non-chicken parents that gave us a chicken. How do we define this egg, then? It seems much fairer to define the egg by what it is than by where it comes from. Hence, since a chicken zygote is inside it, it is to be considered a chicken egg, and thus the egg came first.

ofcourse the egg comes first...

as it says in the bible that easter eggs is a symbolism of the beggining of life... so that means that the egg comes first than chickens...

the question "what came first? the chicken or the egg?"

it would be nicer if the question would be "which came first? the chicken or the chicken egg?"

and god didnt create the world in seven days... he created the world in hundreds... thousands... of years... so that mean there are creatures who lived before chicken do... dinasours.. they lay eggs... so eggs came first than chicken!

or maybe... a dinasour layed an egg and hatched into a chicken XDDD ahahaha...

see... chickens are abnormal ^____^

Well, it’s still unclear whether chicken eggs or chickens came first (the intended question in the original riddle), said Darla Zelenitsky, a paleontologist of the University of Calgary in Alberta who was the first scientist to closely analyze the dinosaur nest.

But interpreted literally, the answer to the riddle is clear. Dinosaurs were forming bird-like nests and laying bird-like eggs long before birds (including chickens) evolved from dinosaurs.

"The egg came before the chicken," Zelenitsky said. "Chickens evolved well after the meat-eating dinosaurs that laid these eggs."

So the original riddle might now be rephrased: Which came first, the dinosaur or the egg? Meanwhile, the new nest provides some of the strongest evidence in North America in favor of the bird-like egg over the chicken.

I have two points. First: The question did not specify a chicken egg. Prehistoric fish, ones that existed before land animals, probably laid eggs like modern fish. And even if they didn't, you have amphibians, reptiles, insects, and dinosaurs to think about before birds came along.

Second, if it did mean chicken eggs, the process of evolution would have made the egg come first. Evolution works this way: if a mutation appeared that made the animal more successful, it would probably survive to produce many, many little animals with either the same mutation or heterzygous for a recessive trait. When these animals produce little animals, they will have the mutation. And they'll succeed too, and the process repeats. Well, the first modern chicken must have come from two parents who were heterozygous for the last recessive trait, or else they would be the first chickens. And a chicken is an eggs before it is a chicken. Therefore, the egg before the chicken.

From a totally evolutionary standpoint, the mutation necessary to create the species of chicken must have occured in either the reproductive organs of the parents of the chicken or during the growth in the egg. Either way, the first evidence of a new species would be in the egg.
EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't see badbee's argument.

This question is def undefined! without the chicken there can be no egg and without an egg there can be no chicken, so how can you be so positive about which came first.

Oh so where did eggs come from? Chickens? No.

Dinosaurs laid eggs, they were here before chickens. Egg wins.

the egg came first coz i lyk eggs and chicks

Living things can only evolve through changes in their DNA; they cannot evolve once they have been born and are roaming the Earth. For example, one of us isn't going to wake up one morning with an extra toe - it's just not going to happen. In an animal, such as a chicken, DNA from a male and female chicken meet and combine, forming a zygote. A zygote is a fertilized egg and is the first cell of a new baby chicken. So, the first cell divides countless times to form all of the cells of a complete chicken. Every cell contains exactly the same DNA - the DNA from the zygote - the original cell.

Chickens evolved one of two ways: from non-chickens or by mutations. Chickens could have evolved from non-chickens through small changes. This is caused by the mixing of male and female DNA of non-chickens. Mutations to the DNA could have produced a zygote resulting in chicken evolution. However, these changes and mutations can only affect the chicken at the point where a new zygote is created. This means that two non-chickens mated and the DNA in the new zygote contained the mutations. That one, little zygote cell divided, and divided, and divided, producing the first real chicken.

Before that first real chicken zygote, only non-chickens existed. The zygote cell is located in the chicken's egg. Because the zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations can produce a new animal, the egg came before the chicken.

i was thinking the chicken came first... then i read everyones view.. my conclusion.. the egg came first..

it makes sense.. the first living organism was probably a cell, more like an egg than a chicken.. then it evolved maybe about a million times to finally create a chicken.. ..

The egg came first because, I searched on the internet and all of the scientific reasons say that the egg came first because the chickens evovled from non-chickens and the egg made the first chicken.