Which came first - the chicken or the egg? Is this a logical question?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nixee
  • Start date Start date
N

Nixee

Guest
We all know to get another chicken, we need TWO chickens, one male and one female - and an egg that has been fertilised. So did two chickens - one male and one female - evolve at the same time at the same rate and in the same place? If not, then how did we get a third chicken and so on. I know there has been a theory that the first bird came from an egg hatched by a reptile, but still for offspring to come this would have had to have happened twice at the same time and in the same place too!

It is fascinating how everything that originally evolved now only comes into being because of 'seed' [male AND female seed] - and that every living creature and plant has seed to reproduce. How did this happen evolutionarily?

This is a genuine question, I only want ANSWERS, not dumb comments. Many thanks!
So is the evolutionary process now complete? Are we intermediate forms of life and are we going to continue evolving? As all these evolutionary changes have taken place randomly, is there a random chance that we could evolve back into monkeys? Possible eh. Random changes go back as well as forward. Yikes! What would you do if you gave birth to an ape!?
 
"I only want ANSWERS, not dumb comments"; I fear you may be disappointed.

Yes, it is fascinating, you're right.
 
If you believe the bible, then God created all living things. Therefore he would have created the first chicken, or male and female chickens. As for evolutionary reasons, I have no idea, but good luck finding the answer.

p.s. Maybe you shouldn't dwell too much on questions like these. Almost always there is no logical answer and you are liable to send yourself nuts by thinking them through!
 
i agree with the theory.

it all in the process of evolution, a chicken may have been laid from another animal?

why do people say the chickens closest relative was the tyrannosaurus rex?
 
"I know there has been a theory that the first bird came from an egg hatched by a reptile".

This is not how evolution works. One species doesn't give birth to a new species. Evolution happens through a series of gradual and accumulative changes. When the changes become drastic enough that one organism can no longer create offspring with the original, it can be said to be a new species. The tougher questions, to me, would be "How did DNA evolve?" or "How does one explain irreducibly complex systems?".
 
if you can find out how every living creature on earth came about then u will find ur answer.
adam and eve lol!
 
The modern chicken is believed to have descended from a closely related species of birds, the red junglefowl, but recently discovered genetic evidence suggests that the modern domestic chicken is a hybrid descendant of both the red junglefowl and the grey junglefowl. Assuming the evidence bears out, a hybrid is a compelling scenario that the egg came before the chicken. Since DNA can be modified only before birth, a mutation must have taken place at conception or within an egg such that an animal similar to a chicken, but not a chicken, laid the first chicken egg.
 
Please ignore these puerile comment from anti-evolutionists (who also believe that the earth is flat and that Christ believed in touching wood for luck). Jonathan is fundamentally correct. But Daniel, who on earth suggested that the chicken's nearest relative was T. rex?
 
well i don't believe in evolution, i believe in creation so i would say that God created the animals and he created them male and female so that they could multiply... so i would say the chicken came before the egg....
 
Its an excellent question and when considered helps to demolish the idea that the theory of Evolution is true.
The same difficulty is exposed when you think of sexual reproduction
 
Back
Top