The old chicken or the egg paradox. Science can't answer this because it uses the present as the key to the past. Today chickens comes only from a chicken eggs and chicken eggs is only hatched from chickens. So no matter which one you choice it's based on faith.
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Holy what the make sense?
YOU FAIL.
The correct answer is that neither the chicken nor the egg came first. There was a recent ancestor to the chicken that laid eggs and eventually evolved. Faith is not required to believe that at all!
"The old chicken or the egg paradox."
It's only a paradox to fundie assholes.
"Science can't answer this because it uses the present as the key to the past."
Pssst, fundtard, eggs have been around hundreds of millions of years before chickens.
"Todays chickens come only from a chicken eggs...."
Yep if chickens popped out of any other kind of eggs that would disprove evolution.
"....and chicken eggs is only hatched from chickens."
See above.
"So no matter which you you choice it's based on faith."
No, its science. Fundies are so wrapped up in their religion that they can't tell the difference between science and faith. However, the rest of us can.
There were eggs LONG before there were chickens.
If that's too broad for you, then consider the first fowl one would qualify as a chicken would have been born from parents that did NOT qualify as "chickens", therefore the egg came first there too.
Considering we have fossilized egg fragments from several million years before chickens ever existed, your attempt to shoehorn a philosophical koan into a scientific context fails spectacularly.
In short - please board the failbus, next stop: Christian Forums.
Biologically, if you want to define a set of genetic characteristics that must be met for an individual animal to be considered a 'chicken', then there will - at some point - be a first individual of the pheasant family that qualifies, the first chicken.
As to which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg? Do you define a chicken egg as (a) an egg that comes from a chicken (in which case the chicken came first), (b) an egg from which a chicken comes (in which case the egg came first), or (c) both (in which case the chicken came first). Eggs in general have, as has already been pointed out, predate chickens.
So, what you're saying is that "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" really means "Do you believe in evolution or Creationism?"
Because according to evolutionary biology and paleontology, the egg came first, while according to the Creation account of Genesis, the chicken came first.
science can answe this, you just wont accept (or in all probability understand) the answer. it's a philosophical question however, which is designed to be a form of brain exercise... you'd know what I meant if you had anything to buff up between those big ol' ears of yours.
@zipperback brilliant!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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