For ages, people have pondered the question of which came first: the chicken or the egg. Using a bit of logic, the answer to this question still isn't easy. If the egg came first, there is no way for it to hatch. If there is a chicken present to hatch the egg, then, umm, the chicken came first, not the egg. People who insist that the egg came first claim that maybe another creature hatched the egg or that the climate was conducive to hatching.
The climate was certainly not conducive to hatching. Temperature changes, water, wind, etc all make it impossible for an egg to hatch if just left out. As for another creature hatching the egg, why would it? Why would it find this random egg and decide to hatch it? Why would it just sit there on this egg and keep it warm, when egg hatching isn't something it normally would do? Unless, of course, the egg came from said creature.
It has always been my belief that either the chicken came first or some creature laid the first chicken egg. So, ya, chicken or egg, which came first? Don't really know...
So here's my take on this: I don't think either came first.
ReplyDeleteMy belief is that, should we look at this logically, neither could have come first. Chickens are hatched from eggs... so therefore, in order for an adult chicken to come into existence an egg had to come first. However, as you've said, if there is no parent to nurture said egg (or even do the deed with the other parent in order to produce said egg) then the egg won't hatch.
So, to me, the answer is neither. I would explain how the chicken came into being via a series of evolutionary changes that lead from one species into another. What species produced the modern chicken? I have no earthly idea... but I do think that species x evolved to species y which evolved to species z, the chicken... or, species x mated with species y and you get chickens, which mated with their siblings to grow their own species. (and it would sort of make sense, if that happened... the chicken couldn't go to either parent species, x or y, for mating because both would consider it a freak and not be interested. you can see this phenomenon in other members of the avian species.)
But I ramble too much. Either way, that's my stance on it. ^-^