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Lots of people seemed to have voted for the chicken but haven't said anything stating their arguments... are people just arbitrarily picking one of the other? :)

Re: Chicken or egg?

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Originally posted by dlavery
Egg-batter fried chicken!!!

LOL.....*homer simpson drool*mmmmmmm........batter*/homer simpson drool*

I vote for the chicken, just because everything tastes like chicken now adays

i'm going to have to go with the chicken. to back up my choice, i'm going to use an animal like the cow for example. The cow does not come from a laid egg, but it's here. Therefore, the chicken must've just one day came here, and then started spawning.

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Originally posted by Nick Mac
i'm going to have to go with the chicken. to back up my choice, i'm going to use an animal like the cow for example. The cow does not come from a laid egg, but it's here. Therefore, the chicken must've just one day came here, and then started spawning.

But how could another chicken come along w/o an egg?

Chickens can't reproduce asexually (sp?)

Actually, in a sense a cow did come from a laid egg...it's just not visible unless you look inside the cows body.

</edit>but if you wish to fight me over my *useless* theory, please PM me<edit />

haha...i thought i got around that. i was trying to choose my words very carefully, saying that even though the cow does come from an embryo, it does not go through an external birth process like the chick hatching from an egg.

hey i defended my argument...:mad:

You crazy people, it's so obvious that the egg came first. Didn't you read my post? :)

Anyhoo, from one of my favorite sites, HowStuffWorks.com:

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In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

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Originally posted by monsieurcoffee
You crazy people, it's so obvious that the egg came first. Didn't you read my post? :)

Anyhoo, from one of my favorite sites, HowStuffWorks.com:

Yan...
i dont want you mad at me, espicaly because Matt Bays is on your team, But the chicken was soo First!

Yeah. I'm going to be stubborn and stick by my answer too. CHICKEN!!

It saddens me to see people turn away from scientific fact... more so than the belief of god. :)

Yeah, stick with your chicken choices - you're all wwwrrrrrrrooooonnnnnnggg.

Ah, this is a funny thread.

Egg, and that is also what I think Darwin would feel. Consider this:

Two animals that are almost, evolutionarily, chickens mate. Their genes, which are almost chicken, unite to form chicken DNA. Thus, we have an egg with chicken DNA.

Of course, there really is no question, considering evolution is a constant process. It wasn't like one day a chicken suddenly happened. But the above explanation is pretty close.

I think that the platepus (sp?) laid the first chicken egg. I mean, what is that thing? Is it a beaver, an otter, a duck, just, whoa. It's almost as confusing as the giraffe: A big yellow horse with spots, and a big long neck.

Hmm...i wonder how darwin would like it if i threw an egg at his head...