The Classic!

Which came first the chicken or the egg...why?

This is a hard one but if you think of it scientifically, the egg. The chicken has feathered so it couldn't be born as a chicken. It had to be an egg. The egg, on the other hand, could be laid by an animal close to a chicken, but not exactly the same. It's a simple mutation.

Well actually it would make sense that is is the chicken, since the egg needs a certain warmth to hatch it up...that warmth is from it's mother's.

As I said, the mother does not have to be a chicken. It could be a close relative of a chicken (some other bird.) It's because of evolution

I would guess at egg, simply because you can change an egg overtime or due to a drastic environmental change but you cannot change an animal in their lifetime (and we are talking 1000 years ago or something!)

Is this some kind of trick

it must be the egg and i can prove it

why did the chicken cross the road, roll in ht e mud, and cross the road again?

Did anyone know that this "debate" was debated by the Ancient Greeks, and they kept on arguing till the enmeny went into Athens and conquered them?

Also it must be the chicken becasue put the same logic with a mammal, like a cat. The organism must come first.

but where did the chicken come from? Exactly

Let's not get into that...this is menat to be a light hearted debate...unless you want to go serious.

Okay sure, but the egg came first

It can't...its the same as saying what came first the cat or the kitten.

Yes, and the kitten came first. Where did the cat come from if there wasn't a kitten?

That's not what I meant...the cat equivalent to the egg is the developing embryo...so what came first the embryo or the cat?

The embryo

And how would it have developed?

It was a mutation. It changed a bit from some other animal

The way I see it, you are looking at it from a religious point of view. That's perfectly fine by me, but I look at it scientifically as I am not religious

I could look at it scientifically too...but...you'll get annoyed

Look at it scientifically then. I want to see what you come up with

ok, listen. An egg s basically what leads to the chicken. If you had the chicken first, you would already had an egg for that chicken. As I said above, i think that a mutation in an egg, let's say a turkey's, or an ostrich's, God knows, happened which gave us the chicken. (yummy)

So are you saying the egg came first?

ummmm, yes i am!

Cool

It seems that it is everyone vs Ahmed

noooo, well, Ahmed is pretty strong in terms of challenges. he can face us off, I think. Right, Ahmed?

No, not against me. I don't remember remember the last time I lost an argument