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No one will really know why
By Nathan Scott
But I'd have to say the chicken did, because I don't really believe the universe just blew up from nothing, but even if so, if there was one little single spot of energy that exploded where did that spot come from? I think at some point there has to be something else, but where will that somethingMore... -
Someone needs to hatch the egg!
This came from a 7 year old, a son of an extra-brilliant ex-colleague:
If the egg came first, then who would have hatched it? No way, sir! -
The egg needs a role model
By Assaf Parag
If there was an egg but no chicken, how could the egg know what to evolve into. With so many things that could evolve from an egg, the egg needs a role model, a full grown chicken.
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What kind of egg?
By William Bell
It's a no-brainer that the chicken came before the chicken egg, but there were plenty of animals that laid eggs a long time before there were chickens.
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Mutation
If a chicken lays eggs, then a chicken necessarily hatches from an egg. So you don't need a chicken for the first egg, since a different animal could lay it. You do need an egg for the first chicken, otherwise it is not a chicken. Hence the egg came before the chicken.
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Evolution
By Ben Fonarov
Sometime in the very distant past a dinosaur which somewhat resembled a chicken laid an egg - out of which a fluffy yellow little non-dinosaur came out. The first ever chicken. It stands to reason this chicken was also a female, otherwise this mutation wouldn't have been able to continue. It mightMore...
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