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The egg

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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm and is filed under Which came first, the chicken or the egg?. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    thew22 [1]
    4-27-2008 | 10:51 pm

    the first modern chicken was a genetic mutation from another similar bird (ie. it evolved from a similar species) so when two of this similar species mated, and created a mutated embryo (modern chicken) it was first layed as an egg – then hatched as the first chicken, which went on to be more successful and spread it’s mutation.

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    digitalbrian [11]
    5-13-2008 | 1:02 pm

    God laid an Egg and out came Mankind

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    Anonymous [1526]
    9-18-2010 | 2:13 pm

    why the egg came first?

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    Dave Metric [24]
    11-9-2010 | 10:05 am

    The egg came first. If you accept evolution then you must accept that the eggs came first. I’ll explain.

    Now just to be clear “Chicken” is just a classification. One of many scientific abstractions to help understand the world. The concept “Chicken” is useful, but we need to realize that there is no such thing as a “perfect” chicken. There always going to be some discrepancy between are conceptalizations and what is reality.
    In the theory of evolution before what we arbitrarily call the “perfect” chicken there were pre-Chickens: animals that look like a chicken, but weren’t exactly like our conceptalized “perfect chicken”. A time line would look something like this
    …..>>>Chicken 0.7>>>>Lays egg for Chicken 0.75>>Chicken 0.75>>>>Lays egg for Chicken 0.8>>>>etc until eventually the “Chicken 1.0″ egg is laid. This egg then births our conceptalized “perfect chicken”.

    So according to the theory of evolution: change over time we have to conclude the egg came before the “perfect” conceptalized chicken.

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