I want to see if you sciency guys out there can help me discover the scientific way of answering the question that has humans on the brink of insanity. Did the Chicken or the Egg come first??

Here is my theory:
After the universe and worlds were created, every single world had atoms, which attempted to evolve into cells. This only successfully happened on the planet we now call Earth(as far as we know). These cells ended up creating Fish Eggs(don't need to be watched to hatch[which is why I pick fish eggs]) in our waters. Only 4 of them hatched. 2 stayed underwater, and the other 2 evolved after a while into amphibians, they had babies and thus the Evolutionary Line caused the creation of reptiles, mammals, and pretty much every animal currently known to man, including the chicken.
Conclusion: The Egg came first!The Fish Egg, that is... (I never specified what egg it had to be)

Please tell me any flaws in my theory and post your own SCIENTIFIC! theory.

Have fun discussing!

The main flaw in your theory is that prehistoric cells, and even the bacteria and protists of today didn't reproduce by laying eggs. Therefore, they didn't evolve into eggs. Eventually, somewhere along the line, they evolved into creatures that laid eggs. I mean, seriously, what kind of evolutionary adaptations does an egg have anyway?

My theory, assuming that we're talking about chicken eggs, is that the egg came first because evolution is what caused the chickens of today to be born, and that very first chicken that represents the chickens that live today came from an egg. Therefore, the egg came before the chicken.

Also, technically, the egg comes first because it is a breakfast food. Both theories work.

The Chicken is a very recent addition to the animal kingdom, eggs have been around for over half a billion years in the fossil record. They developed shells, however, around 300 million years ago. Birds only evolved around 60 million years ago, a chicken is a bird and evolved around a million years ago.

Answer: Egg

Even Philosophically there is not a contest.

Wow....Nice explanation Vektrix. Just what I was going to say .
(No Sarcasm thar)
"What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?"

Well in Minecraft, the Chicken came first

I think it would be more philosophically challenging if we used chicken eggs as our example of "eggs" rather than eggs in general.

Just talking about chicken eggs? The chicken came first.
Ovocledidin-17 is only found inside chicken ovaries, it basically makes the eggshell. So, no chicken, no chicken egg.

The answer is still egg, since evolutionarily the chicken would have developed slowly. Hard as it is to believe, the embryo in the egg would have mutated to become the chicken within the egg. However, being similar to other "Chickens" they can still fertilise their eggs, just his/her genetic material would stick since they survived with the new mutation... answer is still therefore Egg, since the Chicken would have come out of the egg as a Chicken, making the Egg a Chicken Egg, despite being laid by a slightly different creature.

People have been debating this for centuries: I don't think a forum of spore users is going to figure it out..

But anyway, my view point is that HOW do you define an egg? And a chicken?

OKay but here's the problem: the chicken wasn't the first animal on the planet. Unless, of course, the chicken is a metaphor.

I think of it as being the first lifeforms came from proteins and the other bare essential elements of life after the came together after millions of years and kept evolving and adapting to the enviroment and such...


or 42.

I would lile to say the egg came first, the 2 birds made the egg that we today, think of as a chicken.

The chicken came first, it evolved from bacteria into the life form you see today. It was simpler to make it evolve into the chicken than to try and create the egg first.

If you have played Sam & Max Season 2, it is explained:
It is actually the chicken, but Sam & Max replaced him with an egg...

Joke aside, I would say egg first since probably the first chicken (in the means of chicken in today's world) would be the mutilated offspring of a chicken-like creature back in the day, and then this better naturally adapted creature would survive while the parents dont...

It is a scientific fact that the chicken came first. Just accept it.