Which came first, the Chicken or the egg?

[Fealiks]

Discuss.

In my opinion, it was the egg. PROVE ME WRONG.

Edit: By the way, I mean this literally and not as a metaphor for whether birth or animals came first, - I'm actually talking about Chickens themselves. Just so you know. Yeah.

[Rather Dashing]

Depends on what you mean by "egg".

If you mean a chicken egg, as in, an egg laid by a chicken, the of course the chicken came first.

If, however, you mean an egg from which a chicken was born, then obviously the egg came first, as that could have been laid by one of the last of the earliest chicken ancestors.

[Jake]

Chicken.

[Lennie Melvin]

A dinosaur laid an egg and a chicken came out of the egg... obviously.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Jake

Chicken.

If it takes several million years for a dubious detective duo to jump into a time machine and swap a chicken for the egg, it doesn't count. Featherly is descended from the egg, the egg is not descended from Featherly.

[GinnyN]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

If it takes several million years for a dubious detective duo to jump into a time machine and swap a chicken for the egg, it doesn't count. Featherly is descended from the egg, the egg is not descended from Featherly.

But Featherly lays the egg!

[PariahKing]

Depends if you believe in evolution or some kind of creation.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by PariahKing

Depends if you believe in evolution or some kind of creation.

what does the flying spaghetti monster count as?

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by GinnyN

But Featherly lays the egg!

Wait, now I'm confused. I forget this part.

Originally Posted by Sailorcuteness

what does the flying spaghetti monster count as?

Creationism, obviously. That's a foolish question.

[GinnyN]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Wait, now I'm confused. I forget this part.

In What's New Belzeebub? the Egg which Sam uses to exchange the Boxing Betty Controller to himself from Chariots of the Dogs was layed by Mr Featherly while he was in his pockets!

[Wapcaplet]

Nick: Here's a thought. Why don't we get an egg and start our own chicken farm? That way we'd have all the eggs we could eat.
Fetcher: Right. We'll need a chicken, then.
Nick: No... no, we'll need an egg. You have the egg first, that's where you get the chicken from.
Fetcher: No, that's cobblers. If you don't have a chicken, where are you going to get the egg?
Nick: From the chicken that comes from the egg.
Fetcher: Yeah, but you have to have an egg to have a chicken.
Nick: Yeah, but you've got to get the chicken first to get the egg, and then you get the egg... to get the chicken out of...
Fetcher: Hang on, let's go over this again.

[nikasaur]

Answer: Your face.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by GinnyN

In What's New Belzeebub? the Egg which Sam uses to exchange the Boxing Betty Controller to himself from Chariots of the Dogs was layed by Mr Featherly while he was in his pockets!

Oh, oh right.

Wait, that makes this make even less sense. The existence of both the chicken and the egg is reliant on an entire history of chickens that leads up to Mr. Featherly, and then culminates in him laying an egg and that egg then being left behind at the beginning of time!

Obviously the key to this secret lies in the egg's immaculate conception.

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Depends on what you mean by "egg".

If you mean a chicken egg, as in, an egg laid by a chicken, the of course the chicken came first.

If, however, you mean an egg from which a chicken was born, then obviously the egg came first, as that could have been laid by one of the last of the earliest chicken ancestors.

Ugh, pretty much exactly what I was going to say.

Also, if you're not even talking about chicken eggs, then the egg came much, much earlier since other animals laid eggs before there were ever birds. (What would have been the first, though? A fish? Something older?).

[light_rises]

Originally Posted by PariahKing

Depends if you believe in evolution or some kind of creation.

I'm not sure that necessarily makes a difference. Although it also depends on the creation story we're talking about and how the faith associated with said story views it (literal, non-literal, etc.), not to mention how individual practitioners might interpret these stories on their own.

But digging any deeper might well be unwise, so instead I'll say: ... Everyone forgets the damn rooster in all of this. Everyone. :'(

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by light_rises

I'm not sure that necessarily makes a difference. Although it also depends on the creation story we're talking about and how the faith associated with said story views it (literal, non-literal, etc.), not to mention how individual practitioners might interpret these stories on their own.

Actually, it doesn't matter. You know why?

Because it would be like saying that because I believe a bottle of ketchup was the first president of the United States after the revolution to liberate the 50 colonies from Space France, it's a possibility. That's stupid.

But digging any deeper might well be unwise, so instead I'll say: ... Everyone forgets the damn rooster in all of this. Everyone. :'(

It's because the rooster doesn't matter or change anything.

[Chyron8472]

Chicken pot pie.

[Fealiks]

Originally Posted by PariahKing

Depends if you believe in evolution or some kind of creation.

No it doesn't. Just because someone believes in creationism doesn't mean that Natural Selection isn't real (no offence intended to anyone).

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

If it takes several million years for a dubious detective duo to jump into a time machine and swap a chicken for the egg, it doesn't count. Featherly is descended from the egg, the egg is not descended from Featherly.

But would said dubious detective duo have existed before they were born as a result of their time travelling shenanigans? If not then they you'd have to assume that they aren't actually going back in time, but rather to a different time in a parallel universe.

Originally Posted by nikasaur

Answer: Your face.

Why? Just... why?

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Fealiks

But would said dubious detective duo have existed before they were born as a result of their time travelling shenanigans?

Yes, and I don't see the problem with that.

If not then they you'd have to assume that they aren't actually going back in time, but rather to a different time in a parallel universe.

That wouldn't work, because their trips though time change things.

[PariahKing]

Originally Posted by Fealiks

No it doesn't. Just because someone believes in creationism doesn't mean that Natural Selection isn't real (no offence intended to anyone).

I wasn't referring to reality but what as someone would answer and why. I phrased it poorly.

@Whoever: With (several) creationist views (that I don't agree with nor mean to denigrate), the animals are created first then have children and thus lay eggs/procreate.