Age Old Answer
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? This is a very interesting question. You ask someone and they usually have an answer for you fairly quickly. Either the chicken came first or the egg. Then you ask the counter-question to their answer, either the egg was laid by a chicken or the chicken had to have hatched from an egg. Soon, you’ll start to sound like those vultures on the Jungle Book deciding what to do for the day. It’s a vicious cycle of repetitiveness. The more you think about the chicken or the egg, the more confusing it gets. That’s kind of backwards from how you normally figure something out. You’re supposed to come to a conclusion, not to venture out from it. Well, there may be several reasonable answers for which actually came first.
So, again . . .
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Answer 1: The Velociraptor
Let’s say you’re a big fan of Charles Darwin’s work: evolution, natural selection, and all that jazz. Let’s rule out the egg. If the egg “came first,” then there would not have been any nurturing parent chicken or protector. Anything that hatched from that egg wouldn’t have lived more than a week (and that’s just sad). Your answer would be that the chicken came first. You should also be ready if someone were sly enough to challenge you with asking where that chicken came from. Just tell them dinosaurs because birds came from dinosaurs and so the velociraptor clearly came first.
Answer 2: The Rooster
Well what if you’re not convinced by evolution. You’re a hard-core creationist. God created the Earth in six days and rested on the seventh. Fact. And in due time, He took some dust from the ground, created a man, Adam, and breathed life into him. Then, from one of Adam’s ribs, He created Eve. It might be safe to assume that some of the other animals that roam the Earth were created in the same manner. God may just as easily have scooped up some dirt and made the rooster and when the rooster was lonely, He used a drumstick to make the chicken (no souls, of course). Voila! The rest is history.
Answer 3: The Chicken
(Well, that seems pretty straight forward. What gives?) Some believers out there think UFOs and extra-terrestrials visit Earth from time to time. In my opinion, “to each his own.” But let’s be open-minded. We’re all waiting for aliens to visit us and bestow upon us unimaginably advanced technology and understanding. Perhaps in an inter-planetary fly-by, some Alien race decided our world could be a better place with fried chicken, chicken kiev
So choose a side, or make up a different theory. Just realize you’re practically justifying your entire religious and scientific beliefs in the answer to one silly, age-old riddle!
By: S. Cole Garrett
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