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Actually, the chicken and the egg one is the least subjective on the list. There is only one correct answer. The egg came first. Its called evolution. At some p

Actually, the chicken and the egg one is the least subjective on the list. There is only one correct answer. The egg came first. Its called evolution. At some point, a chicken like creature laid an egg, and the egg hatched into what we know as a chicken. A chicken like creature didn't transform into a chicken while it was alive.

SamBam 5y ago
Hmmm, that was my reasoning as well, but now that I think about it... does the egg belong to the creature that laid it or the creature that hatches out of it? A chicken egg is not synonymous with an egg cell, or ovum. The fertilized ovum of course belongs to the creature it will grow into -- it is the creature it will grow into -- and so certainly the chicken ovum came before -- or at the same time as -- the chicken. But when we say "egg" we are referring to the vessel with a shell that houses the fertilized ovum until it hatches. [1] This vessel is made of of various proteins and nutrients, produced by the mother that laid the egg, and a calcium carbonate shell, also made entirely by the mother. This egg, created entirely by the mother and not by the union of an ovum and sperm cell and any mutations that happened then, belongs entirely to the mother. If Proto-chicken mother has laid clutch after clutch of eggs, all those are proto-chicken eggs. When one of those clutches happens to have a mutant that we arbitrarily declare is a "chicken," the egg itself has not changed in any way, only the DNA of the organism housed in the egg. So, on thinking about it, I want to go back and change my answer. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg
- bagacrap 5y ago
  seems simple to me. Eggs existed millions of years before chickens did.
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nicky0 5y ago
The problem is your chicken-like parent would be so chicken-like it would have to be also called a chicken.

SamBam 5y ago

Hmmm, that was my reasoning as well, but now that I think about it... does the egg belong to the creature that laid it or the creature that hatches out of it? A chicken egg is not synonymous with an egg cell, or ovum. The fertilized ovum of course belongs to the creature it will grow into -- it is the creature it will grow into -- and so certainly the chicken ovum came before -- or at the same time as -- the chicken. But when we say "egg" we are referring to the vessel with a shell that houses the fertilized ovum until it hatches. [1] This vessel is made of of various proteins and nutrients, produced by the mother that laid the egg, and a calcium carbonate shell, also made entirely by the mother. This egg, created entirely by the mother and not by the union of an ovum and sperm cell and any mutations that happened then, belongs entirely to the mother. If Proto-chicken mother has laid clutch after clutch of eggs, all those are proto-chicken eggs. When one of those clutches happens to have a mutant that we arbitrarily declare is a "chicken," the egg itself has not changed in any way, only the DNA of the organism housed in the egg. So, on thinking about it, I want to go back and change my answer. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg

bagacrap 5y ago
seems simple to me. Eggs existed millions of years before chickens did.
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nicky0 5y ago

The problem is your chicken-like parent would be so chicken-like it would have to be also called a chicken.