The Chicken/Egg Scenario
August 10, 2009 on 8:29 pm | In General |The age-old question goes:
Which came first: the chicken or the egg?
And i think the point of it is that nobody really knows. Kind of like the ancient Egyptian saying, “if a tree falls in the dunes of the Sahara desert and no one hears it, did it really emit audible vibrations?” (Though the original hieroglyph looks something like a man with an axe in one hand and the other hand cupped to his ear.)
But i think there might be a solution:
A chicken, by definition, comes from an egg. Not just any egg, mind you, but a chicken egg. Thus it is impossible that the chicken came before the egg. Ergo, what laid the first chicken egg was not a chicken. That creature might indeed have been hatched from an egg, but because it cannot have been a chicken egg (as we just established), the first chicken egg still came before the first chicken.
Elementary, dear Watson!
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I realize this post is in jest, but I’ll address the question anyway. The chicken came first. Simple–check Genesis. God created the animals in adult form. The chickens would afterward lay the first eggs (since God designed them to be fruitful and multiply).
Of course, if you don’t believe in God, then you won’t believe this. But the fact that you don’t believe something doesn’t make it false (I’m not saying you do or don’t believe in God–I don’t know). If you don’t think the Bible is a credible book, then I ask you, have you read it? All of it? Have you done any research of your own, or do you blindly accept what others have told you? Don’t let others decide for you. Read it and come to your own conclusions.
Comment by A Person — May 4, 2010 #
Actually, it wasn’t in jest :). That said, however, my logic is of course not infallible, and others could certainly poke holes in it. As far as using the Bible as a reference point: i don’t consider the Bible, or any other religious text, to be a reliable guide to anything except perhaps general wisdom. Though i am, and always have been, agnostic, i do believe that the Golden Rule, as defined by the Bible, is one of the most important philosophies which one should live by. (Okay, i wasn’t _always_ agnostic: i was a staunch atheist until i got old enough to realize that we, as humans, cannot really know anything at all with 100% certainty.)
Comment by admin — May 6, 2010 #