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The Chicken or the Egg!
What came first, the chicken or the egg? I have had this discussion many times with my friends and family, and I always say the same thing. Remember, be polite and respectful. We may never know the answer to this question for sure, but let's try and figure out a logical explanation using everybody's ideas.
I believe the egg came first. Actually, it depends how you look at it. Some form of chicken did lay they egg, but not the chicken we see today. You see, chickens evolved over thousands, if not millions, of years, they did not just pop up some day from the ground. Every hundreds of years or so, there would be a slight developement in the ancestors of the chickens. Maybe a shorter wing, or a blunter beak, maybe a more domestic personality. Then, slowly but surely, the chicken is formed. That is how all evolution works. So, after millions of years of evolution, the "hen" which is ever so near the chicken that we keep in our gardens and on farms, lays an egg which is born as a chicken.
*snores with head on elbow*
Sooo, the chicken came first?
No, the egg! Weren't you listening?
But LilyPad, you see, there had to be a chicken to lay the egg in the first place! Understand?
Ugggggh! *face palms*
So, that's just my belief. What's yours? Even Sapphire is entitled to her own opinions. Have fun!
submitted by LilyPad
(May 8, 2017 - 1:21 am)
(May 8, 2017 - 1:21 am)
the egg. I think that the chicken was a runt to a bigg bird of pray tiyp thing.
(May 9, 2017 - 8:57 am)
Yes, I completely agree with all of you (well, most)
I do believe in evolution, and another animal before the chicken in evolution must have laid the egg, whether it be a dinosaur or other animal.
So, yes, the egg came first.
(I am not kidding, but my CAPTCHA said "mean")
Hmm...I have no idea why.
(May 9, 2017 - 12:45 pm)
I believe, as a Christian, that the chicken came first. I don't think God would have made an egg for Adam to name. Here's a clip of what a web site said that I love. "Evolutionists assert that birds evolved from reptiles over millions of years, so the reptiles eventually laid the egg that hatched as a chicken. The egg came first. Creation Week, God created “every winged bird according to its kind” (Genesis 1:21). God created mature birds with the ability to reproduce. So the bird was first, ready to lay eggs."
I love the Bible. For me, it has an answer for everything! XD
PS I hope you don't take this the wrong way. I meant it to show you my view.
(May 9, 2017 - 1:37 pm)
I have to turn to Luna here and say that a circle has no beginning, or end. It simply is.
(May 9, 2017 - 3:51 pm)
The chicken absolutely came first. As stated in the book of Genesis, I believe that God created the world and all the living beings here within a week. On the fifth day, God created mammals.
Genesis 1:23-24 says, "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the warth after his kind: and it was so." (KJV)
"And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. And God said, 'Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.' And it was so." (NIV)
Evolution has never contributed any theory or evidence worth my putting any stock into it, aside from my Christian beliefs. I don't believe that the earth could just decide to create itself, nor have we seen any evidence of evolution since. When described the theory and process of evolution, it always seems a longer and more vague version of Christian creation when God created the earth, and life. We've since proven spontaneous generation does not happen, so why think that our entire beginning of creation just suddenly jumped into existence? Evolution occured over time after God set things in motion, yes. You see the way creatures have evolved since prehistoric times, but no we did not evolve out of basically nothing.
(May 9, 2017 - 7:49 pm)
What came first? The Luna or the Lovegood?
Answer's obvious. Luna was not the first Lovegood.
(May 9, 2017 - 9:33 pm)
@Random Person,
I never really thought of it that way! Scientifically, it could be both. It could be the chicken because it evolved from another life form, but it could also be the egg (technically, that riddle never said it was the chicken's egg, just an egg) and obviously, life forms laid eggs way before chickens every existed on earth. So technically, both.
(May 10, 2017 - 9:48 am)
Seriously. Scientifically, the chicken came first because modern birds evolved from feathered dinosaurs.
(May 9, 2017 - 9:36 pm)
the dinosaurs laid eggs though. They are not mammals.
(May 9, 2017 - 10:44 pm)
Precisely. I believe God created every living animal according to its kind, and a chicken is an animal. Therefore, because it was created during the period in which God created everything, the chicken came first, and as some have mentioned, God created it so it would reproduce and lay...eggs!
So! The chicken came first. ^^
(May 9, 2017 - 10:23 pm)
*Disclaimer: please don't take any offense!* I have to say, I agree with everyone who said the chicken first. As a Christian, I believe that God made the animals, and he made them able to reproduce. Therefore, all the animals would have been fully grown, such as the chicken. Otherwise, who would nurture the young animals being that no adults existed? Eggs have to have heat to stay alive, so the baby chick would die.
So if you follow along with that, then mustn't be a chicken first? I know a lot of you believe in evolution, and that is okay! We all have our different beliefs. But I do think that God would not have created baby animals, they would have all suffered and died without parents to nurture them. Yes, Adam was in charge of the garden and naming the animals but he could not manage all that and raise the young animals. So in short, I do believe the chicken came first.
(May 10, 2017 - 10:28 am)
Again, disclaimer--I am not here to argue beliefs. I respect all beliefs and are not here to debate this, but to share my opinions on the matter, and if anybody is hurt by my beliefs I will withdraw from the thread.
Ready for some fun tidbits?
First of all being that--
"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth" (Genesis 1, verse 22).
I just wanted to bring this verse into the discussion, because it might have some meaning or help to other Christians who can't make up their minds.
Also--YES RANDOM PERSON! YESSS!!!
Um, sorry.
While a circle has no beginning or end, a pencil needs to draw the circle in the first place to make it endless, and a hand needs to hold that pencil, and....
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(May 10, 2017 - 1:06 pm)
OMG, thank you Esq, Ashlee, Icy, BHR, Killim, and all you amazing creationist Christians! You make me happy, because I thought I might be the only one who thought the Chicken came first, and yeeeeaaaahhhh...
Anyway, thank you for supporting your beliefs. Our beliefs.
Group hug!
(I am soooo sorry if this sounded exclusive or rude or anything, I just am glad that I agree with these people.)
(May 10, 2017 - 6:57 pm)
Just because we want to be inclusive to all, group hug for everyone for being polite and sharing our opinions!
And group hug to you guys, Leeli! I was actually quite fearful at first posting because I was thinking, oh, oh, I think I am probably one of the only who believe this because all the way down, I just saw "the egg first" over and over. Not that it is a bad thing! I respect what people believe. It was just about to not post until I saw some of the others say the chicken first.
(May 11, 2017 - 10:12 am)
Same! I'm just glad I'm not the only one.
(May 11, 2017 - 5:12 pm)