What came first?

[Pepper Brancacane]

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

[Poison Simpson]

The egg, because dinosaurs laid eggs, and they existed well before chickens. >.>
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[Sparky Harlan]

Let us rename the topic to 'Which came first, the dinosaur or the egg?'
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[Pepper Brancacane]

I can't! Maybe a mod can.

[Leroy Simpson]

some people think chickens are evolved raptors, so you may have a pet raptor! scary
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[Pancake Smith]

How do you define a chicken egg?

If you define it as an egg laid by a chicken, then by definition the chicken came first.

If it's an egg that will hatch into a chicken, then a non-chicken could've laid it, so the egg came first.


/endargument
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-Carl Sagan

[Sparky Harlan]

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[Knyh Risotto]

The single celled amoeba came first.
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[Sparky Harlan]

Out of the two given, you bus-nosed orangeskirt!
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[Pepper Brancacane]

LOL... Ok then.

[Garfield Simpson]

Chicken.

I was going to put a comment about somebody yelling out something about Christianity but I'd rather not.

Quite frankly, I'd rather not evangelize over the Net.
It's kinda awkward and a bad place for a religious discussion.
'Specially here.
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[Nickyh Smith]

Chicken comes first in the English dictionary.
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[Sheena Totoro]

Eggs, once laid, need to be kept warm and safe until the animal inside is ready to come out. Once that happens, the young animal is usually too small to get its food, etc and also very vulnerable. It needs somebody to give it food and protect it.
Therefore, the egg-laying animal came before the egg, because if the egg had come first the animal inside would have died before coming out of there.

Yes, I gave this a lot of thought.
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[Stim Smith]

Sheena has a great point...but I shall revive this discussion by saying:

"What if the first egg from which a chicken to emerge wasn't layed by a chicken?"

I Sam and max (by telltale, second season) there was a funny part where the two would go back in time to the beginning of the universe and they would find two things there: something the size of an orange that hinted to be exploding soon, and a chicken. they would replace the chicken with an egg which they would actually get from the same chicken later due to a loop in time.
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"Saving existence was just a sidequest."
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