01-29-2005, 10:33 AM
WandererX12 Wrote:If that first chicken evolved, then the egg had to be there before the chicken. It may not have been layed by a chicken, but it contained a chicken. Which in my opinions makes it a chicken's egg, not a dino-chicken-like-creature's egg. For the chicken to come first it would have to have been magically zapped into creation without the use of eggs.
It wouldn't be a chicken's egg. Imagine chickens evolved from crocodiles (LOL! I have no idea what the chicken's ancestor was ). Since at first a chicken, as all other animals, was a mutation of the animal from which it evolved then, in this crazy example I just made up, a crocodile laid crocodile eggs and from one of them a mutation was born and that mutation was a chicken. So yes, as far as eggs go the egg was there first but it would be a crocodile egg not a chicken egg, that would come from the chicken itself. But since the real question is "what came first, the egg or the animal who laid it?" if we trace it all the way back to the beginning of life on Earth then like I said the " animal" (unicelular organism) was there first.