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The old chicken or the egg paradox. Science can't answer this because it uses the present as the key to the past. Today chickens comes only from a chicken eggs and chicken eggs is only hatched from chickens. So no matter which one you choice it's based on faith.

Smidlee, Christian Forums 46 Comments [12/6/2007 10:53:36 PM]
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#354870
Alina

Too much stupid

12/7/2007 7:12:52 AM
#354913
Mister Spak

You base it on faith because you have no knowledge of reality. The rest of us base the answer on facts.

12/7/2007 8:52:19 AM
#354970
[url=http://rlrr.drum-corps.net/]rlrr[/url]

WTF?

12/7/2007 10:35:33 AM
#354972
NonProphet

Considering we have fossilized egg fragments from several million years before chickens ever existed, your attempt to shoehorn a philosophical koan into a scientific context fails spectacularly.

In short - please board the failbus, next stop: Christian Forums.

12/7/2007 10:37:41 AM
#354986
David B.

Biologically, if you want to define a set of genetic characteristics that must be met for an individual animal to be considered a 'chicken', then there will - at some point - be a first individual of the pheasant family that qualifies, the first chicken.

As to which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg? Do you define a chicken egg as (a) an egg that comes from a chicken (in which case the chicken came first), (b) an egg from which a chicken comes (in which case the egg came first), or (c) both (in which case the chicken came first). Eggs in general have, as has already been pointed out, predate chickens.

12/7/2007 11:08:32 AM
#355025
Blackvoice

Turning turning turning turning around...

12/7/2007 12:02:00 PM
#355069
cyborgtroy

No, we can't answer it, we can only explain to you imbeciles that neither the chicken nor the egg came first because of gradual evolution.

12/7/2007 12:39:45 PM
#355105
Mike

Dinosaurs. PWND.

12/7/2007 1:33:55 PM
#355173
Old Viking

Apparently Smidlee walks the streets thinking things like this.

12/7/2007 2:58:47 PM
#355179
John

Science can't answer this because it uses the present as the key to the past

Science can answer this: the egg.

12/7/2007 3:06:32 PM
#355185
anti-nonsense

Wow this is the SECOND time I've seen a "scientists can't tell whether the chicken or the egg can first" argument on this website.

Eggs came first. End of discussion.

12/7/2007 3:13:05 PM
#355231
tracer

So, what you're saying is that "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" really means "Do you believe in evolution or Creationism?"

Because according to evolutionary biology and paleontology, the egg came first, while according to the Creation account of Genesis, the chicken came first.

12/7/2007 4:10:39 PM
#355292
Frank Costanza

Let me get this straight. You got the chicken, the rooster, and the hen. The Rooster has sex with the hen. Who has sex with the chicken? Something's missing here!

12/7/2007 5:01:17 PM
#355299
Andrew

The egg came first you idiot. There is no paradox. This was was resolved before your great-grandfather was born. Time to get educated.

12/7/2007 5:09:40 PM
#355385
flipper

Which came first the fundie or the failure?

12/7/2007 6:47:30 PM
#355828


Cells explain it in a far better way. And by the way, is this computer typing an act of faith?

12/8/2007 6:31:44 AM
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AnonIncognito


12/11/2007 8:39:43 PM
#361461


Lol's

12/14/2007 3:02:43 PM
#361546


science can answe this, you just wont accept (or in all probability understand) the answer. it's a philosophical question however, which is designed to be a form of brain exercise... you'd know what I meant if you had anything to buff up between those big ol' ears of yours.

@zipperback brilliant!

12/14/2007 5:15:52 PM
#1256539


Somebody didn't make their homework in the science class.

2/14/2011 2:41:04 AM
#1361821


Science doesn´t bother about that. It´s a popular riddle. Next

12/30/2011 6:20:05 AM
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