Unanswerable Question?

[pjm007]

Which came first, The chicken or the egg?

[Greedyfly]

Both

[Greedyfly]

I came first then a laid an egg and ate a chicken

[tigga]

Whichever one was the man _ lol !

[Potatoman]

Your bored, arnt you?

[Ewood27]

Boring sensible answer.  Eggs came first.  Long before there were chickens (or any birds) came the Age of Reptiles - and they reproduce by laying eggs.  So the eggs win by several million years.

[New Forester]

Ewood - And reptiles came from amphibians, and they came from fish, and they came from earlier chordates, right back to the Precambrian.  So it's hundreds and hundreds of millions of years.

 

Second boring answer: a chicken is properly a chick, not an adult bird.  It ought to be "hen".  Otherwise the common pub name "Hen and Chickens" would make no sense at all.

[booksworth]

Only slightly relevant third answer: Shakespeare thought that too, when MacDuff says "What! all my pretty chickens (i.e. his children) and their dam, at one fell swoop?"

[yinmorrison]

obviously the chicken as God created all!!!!

[Mike1234]

The chicken... an egg need sincubaing and without th chicken it cant hatch!

[slimfandango]

It would have been the egg. If you define it properly, there is a precise point where you can say one species stops and another starts. The 'egg' is the first of the chickens. The creatures that create it (mummy and daddy prechicken) are not chickens, but very like them. Due to a specific genetic mutation at the point of conception, a new species, chicken, was created. Thus...egg.

[guigs]

depending from where you begin counting, if you start with the chicken obviously the chicken will come first if you begin with the egg, same thing...