Today we are going to try something different Robert - poet laureate of La la Land - B. came up with a great idea to have a guest question on the Question of the Day.
If you would like to be a guest questioner please email me through gather! I will include your name and a link to your gather page along with your question. This is a great way to increase your connections!
With out further ado, here is Robert's question:
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
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Ann??/ were sitting there waiting for my email?? LOL!
hmm the egg
The Theory of Evolution states that various animals and plants evolved from ancestors that were not that exact animal or plant. Successive generations gained differences and eventually, a less-developed animal or plant evolved into the more-developed organism. In other words, evolution means that life might have started out with very small animals called amoebas, then grown bigger and bigger, and more and more complex, from eon to eon, and from generation to generation, starting out in the oceans and the primordial soup, then eventually, life evolved into the land animals.
Let's look at a set of assumptions that follow a somewhat logical set of arguments. This set of assumptions will lead us to what, I believe, is the correct answer. This may get a bit complicated, so feel free to discuss this with your parent, teacher, or another friend.
First assumption: For the sake of argument, lets assume that evolution is a scientific fact. Most science teachers agree with this statement. Some ministers, rabbis, priests and orthodox believers disagree. (But since Pope John Paul 2 has stated that God may have used evolution as part of His creation, maybe more ministers and priests will start to agree.)
Second assumption: If we go back many thousands of years, we will find an ancestor of the chicken that was not a chicken. (For example, many people believe that one ancestor of the human beings might have been a greatly-developed relative of the chimpanzee.)
Third assumption: This "not-chicken" ancestor was probably the ancestor of more than one of the current sets of animals that lay eggs, so we can assume that this "not-chicken" ancestor laid eggs. Perhaps this "not-chicken" animal was also a great-great-ancestor of the duck, the chicken and a few other animals that laid eggs. For lack of a better name, let's call this ancestor a KcudneKcihc.
Fourth Assumption: Life goes on. Generation after Generation, these creatures keep getting closer and closer to what we now call a chicken, but we don't know when one creature changed from being a "KcudneKcihc" to a "Chicken".
The proof: Let's make a timeline that shows the period of time a few years before the first chicken, when the great-great-great-grandfather of the first chicken was still known as a "KcudneKcihc."
great-great-great-grandmother KcudneKcihc
Egg
great-great-grandmother KcudneKcihc
Egg
great-grandmother KcudneKcihc
Egg
grandmother KcudneKcihc
Egg
mother KcudneKcihc
Egg
first Chicken
Egg
second Chicken
Egg
Etcetera
So, as you can see, at some point in the deep past, we had an animal that was definitely NOT a chicken that laid an egg. In the more recent past, we had a chicken that was hatched out of an egg. We don't know when, but at some point, we had a mother, that was not a chicken, that laid an egg, from which a chicken hatched.
So, what came first? The chicken or the egg.
We can't point to when it happened, but, if chickens evolved from another earlier animal, then at some point in the past, an animal that wasn't a chicken laid an egg, and out of that egg, we got a chicken. So, the egg came first.
I agree with you!
The chicken ...
Ann, I am not sure where Robert is....But I am sure he will make a big entrance ;-)
jkjk,
uhm the chicken definately.
well i think so at least,
god made the chickens,
then they had eggs
Okay. Being a creationist and believing in God, the true and simple answer to this is the CHICKEN came first. The Bible teaches God created the animals and man named them. It didn't say he created the egg although I'm pretty sure he knew the egss were coming. LOL.
I don't know why he didn't choose that form of birth for us; ladies, laying an egg and sitting on it (albeit you couldn't sit on it for 9 months) has to be easier than childbirth.
I believe the chicken came before the egg, but MY question is which came first - the chicken or the rooster? Since Adam was first, were ALL male animals first? And then females??? There's something to think about, huh?
What do YOU think Robert???
thanks all!
The egg came first. Reptiles lay eggs right? Millions of years ago some reptiles evolved into birds. Birds came from prehistoric reptiles. Through millions of years the different species of birds evolved. Chicken eventually came to be. Thus, since reptiles layed eggs and came before birds, the egg came first. :-D
Does this make sense?