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Does anyone know a word wich describes impossible questions,questions which nobody can answer,like the chicken and the egg?
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The chicken and egg question was just an exampleof the kind of question.Though personally I think the answer to that question depends on whether you take a creationist or evolutionary approach.
The chicken and egg question was just an exampleof the kind of question.Though personally I think the answer to that question depends on whether you take a creationist or evolutionary approach.
chickens have been coming out of eggs for a long time. But at some point it wasn't so much a chicken as some kind of dinosaur-type chicken ancestor, just as we had our own ancestors who hadn't yet developed into humans. But the egg was still the means of delivery, so the egg was first.
A chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg.
A chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg.
The answer is paradox, or even "catch 22"
Like the unemployed vagrant who could'nt get a job without accomodations, and could'nt get accomodation without a job.
Or even the flea in the centre of a circle, he jumps 1/2 way to the edge, and keeps jumping 1/2 the previous distance, always moving foreward... never reaches the edge.
Like the unemployed vagrant who could'nt get a job without accomodations, and could'nt get accomodation without a job.
Or even the flea in the centre of a circle, he jumps 1/2 way to the edge, and keeps jumping 1/2 the previous distance, always moving foreward... never reaches the edge.