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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2009 9:43:28 GMT
Please give your thoughts on the subject.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jun 6, 2009 13:40:53 GMT
Clearly it was the egg. Think about it - before chickens were whatever-it-was that chickens evolved from. Then one of those laid an egg, and the first chicken hatched from that. There, philosophical conundrum answered.
Next: how long is a piece of string? Answer: The one I'm thinking of is 8.6 inches.
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Post by CPK on Jun 6, 2009 14:11:06 GMT
Hows about looking at it from a religious perspective? Didn't God put animals on the Earth, and not food items or embroys? Thus, I argue the Chicken. Plus it's first in the poll as well
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Post by Nicholas on Jun 6, 2009 14:37:05 GMT
Looking scientifically, any new animal is created from an egg or an embryo. Assuming that chickens haven't been around forever, or since the dinosaurs, it's probably safe to assume it is the result of cross breeding between two older animals or something, or, merely evolution, even though I don't heavily sway towards that idea by default.
Therefore, it's likely the first thing to have existed that we today would recoginise as a chicken is likely to have come from an egg, the first egg and have been hatched to become the first chicken. Any form of new animal that is a result of evolution, scientific expermimentation or cross breeding would also have to have firstly been an egg or an embryo or what-have-you.
Therefore, I voted egg.
Nicholas.
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Post by Churchy on Jun 6, 2009 15:07:55 GMT
"Eggs for breakfast, Chicken for dinner."
Egss first then, eh?
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jun 8, 2009 21:39:06 GMT
Ah! Sir, your point is well made.
Alternatively, I propose a race. My company, the Telos Foundation, will sponsor the chicken.
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Post by Phobi on Jun 8, 2009 21:43:58 GMT
I picked egg. everyone else did. *trying to fit in but still not doing it right*
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Post by Father Austin Purcell on Jun 9, 2009 0:46:41 GMT
I'm afraid I need to know what species of chicken you're talking about. I mean, a Rhode Island Red or a Sicilian Buttercup is one thing, but an Orpington? That turns the whole thing on it's head. As for the egg, is it raw? Boiled? Fried? Scrambled? Poached?
How can you expect us to answer it when you don't give us all the facts?
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Post by Aidan on Jun 9, 2009 3:37:07 GMT
I'd say it was the egg, but then the question would remain as to where the egg came from, so I'm up in the air on this one.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2009 19:37:44 GMT
How can you expect us to answer it when you don't give us all the facts? Believe me, mate, I'm just as lost as you are.
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Post by edwardblue on Jun 13, 2009 2:58:31 GMT
Who cares about facts? Obviously it was the egg that hatched the first chicken. Though it took ten of thousands of years because while it did come close so many times, those eggs repeatedly got stepped on by bigger and better beings.
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Post by Warrior on Jun 13, 2009 12:59:45 GMT
Hows about looking at it from a religious perspective? Didn't God put animals on the Earth, and not food items or embryos? Thus, I argue the Chicken. Plus it's first in the poll as well Well said CPK. While I shall resist the temptation to monolouge about how ridiculous the idea is that something would "evolve" into something as useless(Exept for eating, of course) as a chicken, I will still vote for it. No offense intended to the religious community(I count Evolution as a religion(Religion is defined in my dictionary as belief in the unseen, so that would fit...(Once again, no offense meant))...
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Post by Little Engine on Jun 15, 2009 22:44:08 GMT
Ooh, how about "philosophy?" Philosophy seems like a better word for the concept of evolution, in my humble opinion. Philosophy is more "you can see it, but you can't definitively prove it" than religion. Plus, philosophy is just awesome in general. Philosophers tend to have cool names... like Socrates, and Voltaire, and Aristotle and so on. Personally, I say the egg came first. Chickens couldn't've just appeared overnight... something had to lay the egg that the chicken hatched from. (And I mean no more offense here than anyone else, but personally I'm a firm believer in evolution via genetic mutations, and such. Though I'm pretty open-minded to all possibilities, I could be completely wrong, for all I know.) Besides, eggs taste better than chickens. You also don't have to kill an egg to eat it, as the eggs we eat aren't alive to begin with. And eggs make much worse stains on your clothing when you spill them all over yourself. For all these reasons, I vote egg.
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Post by JimBobDunnie on Jun 15, 2009 22:53:50 GMT
Chuck Norris.
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Post by Revolver on Jun 16, 2009 1:12:05 GMT
Hmm...the good Lord created the universe, which started to creat planets, which created our Solar System, which Earth was formed in, which had oceans, which led to life, which led to them moving to land, which they then adapted. Then they had to survive the giant fish, then eventually became giant bugs and some reptiles showed up, which got bigger until they almost died out, which the survivors got bigger and eventually lost their title to the dinosaurs, who then died but somehow had survivors that eventually became chickens. BUT the first "official" chicken is either the one who layed the egg, or hatched from it...
Now my head hurts from my unintelligent rambling...
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jun 17, 2009 22:59:08 GMT
I suppose we'd need to know which chicken and which egg. And does either party have to cross the road?
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Post by Tines on Jun 18, 2009 20:14:40 GMT
How can there be an egg if there's no chicken to lay it?
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jun 18, 2009 20:23:22 GMT
You're assuming it's a chicken egg. Could be a duck egg. Could be a chocolate egg.
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Post by Revolver on Jun 18, 2009 22:16:15 GMT
What about a Terror Bird egg? Did anyone consider one of those?
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jun 18, 2009 22:54:27 GMT
A pterabird?
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