Dinosaur eggs.

Posted: September 20th 2010

See all questions answered by Reed Braden

I don’t understand why there’s so much confusion on this issue. What do you suppose the first chicken came out of? An egg!

Now I know there are some people who “believe” the chicken came first. They say Genesis is pretty clear on this: eggs can’t “fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens”, so God must have made the chicken first. First of all, if you can call that awkward mess of flappity chicken wings “flying” you’ve got a pretty loose command of the English language. Second of all, and more importantly, do you believe everything you read in books? It’s just a story. In the real world, chickens come out of eggs.

Some people take an agnostic stance on this issue, but I don’t think their position is coherent either. It seems like they just don’t want to offend those in the chicken-believer camp. These people haven’t clouded their minds with creationist gobbledygook, but they don’t seem to follow their own conclusions. There have been plenty of experiments showing that chickens come out of eggs. “Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence” they say. Le sigh. The astronomically remote possibility of a chicken that was never an egg is not enough on which to hang reasonable doubts. You can never absolutely prove it didn’t happen, but where would we be if we only believed what we could prove absolutely? We’d all be mathematicians, and that would suck.

Atheists are scientists. Egg first, then chicken. The End.

Posted: September 19th 2010

See all questions answered by George Locke

As stated, the question is easy. The egg came millions of years before the chicken, because dinosaurs laid eggs.

So which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg? That depends on whether you define a chicken egg as an egg laid by a chicken or an egg containing a chicken.

At some point in the evolution of the family of fowl to which chickens belong, something which was almost a chicken according to our modern classification laid a slightly mutated egg containing the first proper chicken. So it’s up to you whether you count that egg or the next one in the line of descent.

Posted: September 19th 2010

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