The Chicken/Egg Debate: Settled at last!
Jul. 15th, 2010 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragon_spiritWhich came first: The chicken or the egg?
Okay, I think I can put a final nail in the coffin of this whole question. And, frankly, I'm surprised it's still even under debate! Let me begin by stating that the scientists who came up with the answer in the article above are just plain wrong. Their science is sound, but they need to take a step back and look at the big picture.
Creationists may believe that at some point, God said, "Let there be chickens!" And there were, and they were good, and they laid eggs. That's a fun answer, but that's not good enough for science. What science does know about chickens is that they evolved from other egg-laying birds, which evolved from egg-laying reptiles, which evolved from egg-laying dinosaurs. There were eggs a long time before there were chickens. So there you go. The egg came first.
All you scientists and free-thinkers, please feel free to join the debate!
Okay, I think I can put a final nail in the coffin of this whole question. And, frankly, I'm surprised it's still even under debate! Let me begin by stating that the scientists who came up with the answer in the article above are just plain wrong. Their science is sound, but they need to take a step back and look at the big picture.
Creationists may believe that at some point, God said, "Let there be chickens!" And there were, and they were good, and they laid eggs. That's a fun answer, but that's not good enough for science. What science does know about chickens is that they evolved from other egg-laying birds, which evolved from egg-laying reptiles, which evolved from egg-laying dinosaurs. There were eggs a long time before there were chickens. So there you go. The egg came first.
All you scientists and free-thinkers, please feel free to join the debate!
