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The Lounge / Re: Solving problem of common sayings.
« on: March 19, 2014, 08:14:34 PM »Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Thanks to evolution, it's provable that the egg came first.
Chickens evolved from something else, which we can call the proto-chicken. At some point, one has to draw a line between whether a creature is a proto-chicken or an actual chicken in terms of defining characteristics. Proto-chicken eggs hatched into creatures that eventually were chicken like enough to be called a chicken.
Therefore, at some point, there was a proto-chicken parent that laid an egg containing a chicken. Since the first chicken hatched from an egg with no chicken before it, the egg came first.