Which came first, Chicken or Egg?

Sorry but if the question really was whether eggs in general existed before chickens there would be NO POINT in asking the question. No philosophical thought experiment.

If that was the actual question it was proved decades ago when they discovered dinosaurs laid eggs, it wouldn't even be worth ever asking the question if that was the case.

Stupidity of people astounds me sometimes.

The chicken and egg thought experiment was intended to point out the futility of identifying the first case of a circular cause and consequence. Therefore the only way to provide an answer to the question is by taking the question literally.

Now I realise your not a fan of being contradicted, but regardless by trying to answer the question in non-literal terms your missing its whole point!

The egg, because of evolution.

The egg.

At one point during the evolution that lead up to a chicken there must have been a slightly less chicken like creatur giving birth to a slightly more chicken like creature.

So I agree with you =P

Who put the egg there then, did it just suddenly appear.....?

I say chicken... evolved from another species whilst cut off from the original population. Therefore a restricted flow of alleles etc etc... im thinking founder effect or genetic bottleneck. Who knows? Ask AQA biology.

WHY THE NEGS?

But how could the egg have come first? There is no egg without the presence of a chicken! It's like askin whether a human or a baby came first.

I asked my geneticist flatmate about this a while ago, and he said the egg. I can't remember his reasoning though. Way to rock the appeal to authority...

To take the smartarse tack, nobody ever said anything about it being a chicken egg. On the basis that dinosaurs were laying eggs before birds even evolved, I'm going to go with egg.

There are good points for it being both... the whole point of evolution is genetics which indicates the egg would have to come first.. but it still raises the issue with me of when is a chicken, a chicken? In terms of evolution...

To take the smartarse tack, nobody ever said anything about it being a chicken egg. On the basis that dinosaurs were laying eggs before birds even evolved, I'm going to go with egg.

Then it's hard to distinguish the correct answer. The title does say 'the chicken or the egg'. I would settle on the idea the egg came first in some instances and the creature in others.

There are good points for it being both... the whole point of evolution is genetics which indicates the egg would have to come first.. but it still raises the issue with me of when is a chicken, a chicken? In terms of evolution...

Come on, that's changing the meaning of the question to suit your ends.
Basically cheating.

The egg.

At one point during the evolution that lead up to a chicken there must have been a slightly less chicken like creatur giving birth to a slightly more chicken like creature.

So I agree with you =P

this is correct

I asked my geneticist flatmate about this a while ago, and he said the egg. I can't remember his reasoning though. Way to rock the appeal to authority...

To take the smartarse tack, nobody ever said anything about it being a chicken egg. On the basis that dinosaurs were laying eggs before birds even evolved, I'm going to go with egg.

They both arrived on earth at the same time when god put them there

I don't really understand. The point I was making was that it is an assumption we make that 'the egg' refers to a chicken egg. And if we subvert that assumption there ceases to be a problem. It's not a real solution, just me being a pedant.