impossible questions

[marwel7]

Does anyone know a word wich describes impossible questions,questions which nobody can answer,like the chicken and the egg?

[tombrandy]

The chicken and the egg??? has an answer....read the bible.

[mrs.chappie]

Hey tom, the bible's a very long read - can you just tell us the answer please?

Thanks.x

[tombrandy]

I dont know what day it was but GOD created the birds bees and the fowls of the air.....or something like that

[dxhound2003]

Conundrum ?

[mrs.chappie]

Seriously though ......... What did come first - the chicken or the egg?

[pinktwink1]

why the sun lightens hair and darkens skin?

Why psychics never win the lotto?

how long is a piece of string

[mrs.chappie]

Who put the bop in the bop-b-bop-b-bop?

Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding dong?

[tombrandy]

everthing has an answer, finding it is the hardest part,The best place to look is on A/B.

[marwel7]

Thanks for the answers,guys,you have answered everything but the question which was what is the word for questions which nobody can answer.
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.

[dxhound2003]

I gave you an answer

Conundrum

[Tups]

a conundrum is a question or problem having only a conjectural answer. Think dxhound's answer is the best you're gonna get

[squarebear]

paradox?

[marwel7]

sorry,dxhound,must have missed that.and thanks to squarebear.

[Jimble Jones]

the countdown conundrum has an answer, or am i being too literal?

[dxhound2003]

I think the Countdown conundrum could be more properly called an anagram.

[jno]

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.

[mrs.chappie]

Thanks for that, jno.

[Ice.Maiden]

Yes - just "impossible".... but I suppose "hypothetical" might be used in certain cases.

[rolie]

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.

[Yes-Chef]

Why wouldn't the flea reach the edge? And yes, I think you mean a paradox!