Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Egg

I haven't read that wiki article, but judging by the URL, I'd [probably] agree with it.

My opinion is that the egg came first, because the creature that is now known as a chicken evolved from something. Pre-chicken laid the egg, that modern chicken hatched out of.

As the two previous answers prove it really depends on if you believe in evolution or creationism as to what you will answer.

Chicken came first for the Creationist
While the Egg came first for the proponents of Evolution.

God didn't create any eggs?

@sferik The most simplistic form of Creationism [according to Genesis] says that God said there should be animals and there were. Therefore if he[she/it/they] just popped a chicken into existence, said go forth and prosper, then the chicken would lay the first egg.

God talked to chickens?

Genesis 1:22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."

Dunno if he was talking "to" them or just talking. I wasn't there.

Great question. I would say the egg.

Creationism? Evolution? I find it interesting that an ancient zen koan like question is currently framed in those terms. The 'egg' exists pre-laying as an ovum within the chicken, so if the chicken was "created" it was created with built in eggs or egg manufacturing sub system, i.e. Chicken and Egg where Created simultaneously. So the question might be a reframing of the so-called 'right to life' issue of life begins at conception: Egg Begins at Ovulation. Refering to the original question, which postulated the answer lies within the position of the questioner, the follow up question might be, which came first....to an outside observer.

Since I HATE eggs... chicken!

This is a stupid, hoary and creaky joke; the really short answer is” the chicken, but the egg had more fun.”

The eggs come to the table first. They’re breakfast ya know.

This gives the chicken the rest of the day to realize that if they eat your eggs they’re going to eat you too.

egg came first. whatever animal evolved into the chicken laid an egg out of which hatched the first chicken. QED.

If the egg came first what did it come out of? God created animals…not eggs.

@babygalli, the egg was laid by an animal that was very similar to, but not exactly, a chicken. that’s how evolution works.

granted, if you ask “which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?” that’s a different questions.

and, if your hypothesis that god created everything is correct, wouldn’t he/she/it have created eggs, too? as well as the whole reproductive system, i imagine…

Depending on what you believe is whats going to realy influence your answer. “Personally i think it was the egg.