Okay, I'm procrastinating... for those of you who care: get over it.
This was originally going to be a longer post, but it really is too simple...
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Can we admit that our understanding of a chicken includes that it hatches from an egg?... I'm just going to assume we can... That, however, does not answer the question fully.
The actual answer to the question lies in the creationism v. evolution "debate" (it's not really a debate because it follows no rules and people stopped using any semblance of new logic years ago... to be fair, on both sides).
If you truly believe in creationism, then you would believe that the chicken came first... that God created two or so chickens, and things progressed from there. If you truly believe in evolution, then the egg had to come first because a chicken's not really a chicken unless it hatches from an egg. (note: in evolution, the first "chicken's" parents would not have been chickens as we know them today... though there may not have been many differences, but that discussion is irrelevant because I am not trying to track down the first historical chicken...)
I happen to believe that God formed a universe that is governed by many "laws," among them evolution (we're also not getting into the differences between my beliefs and intelligent design... suffice it to say that they are far from the same).
I'm going with the egg.
About Me
- Stephen
- A philosopher of sorts who just sees the world clearly and in a different way...
2 comments:
I believe that a chicken-egg hybrid creature was created by space aliens who blasted them with an 'absurd logic laser', thus simultaneously creating the chicken and the egg.
John, you're absolutely right... there are many other possibilities that I failed to consider...
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