Via Slashdot via CNN. It was the egg. The creature that laid the egg doesn’t count as a chicken, and in order to be a chicken, you have to come from a chicken egg. I can finally sleep easy.
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The answer is really quite simple. By any definition, an egg is merely a by-product of an animal. For a chicken egg to exist, it requires an adult hen and an adult rooster to fertilize the egg. Otherwise it would just be a scrambled egg! Remember roosters? An egg requires a hen to incubate the egg and keep it warm before it can hatch. Remember incubation? The young chick requires a chicken to keep it warm, to gather food, and to protect it from predators. Otherwise it would simply die if left on its own. But even if an egg could produce itself, then what? How could other chickens have come about from one egg? An egg cannot give birth to a chicken, whereas a chicken can lay hundreds of eggs in her life. In the same way, a baby human cannot give birth to its mother. It requires an adult female and an adult male to fertilize her eggs. Furthermore, a baby human and a chicken egg are each produced in the womb of their mother. Neither a baby nor an egg can be produced outside of their mother’s womb. Since an egg is only a by-product of a chicken, it is impossible for it to have come before the chicken. Therefore, BOTH the chicken and the rooster came first.