This is one of the single most absurd discussions I’ve ever heard in my life; like the kid in the movie Animal House smoking pot with the professor thinking it’s possible our solar system is like an atom in a chair leg or some such rot.
It’s simple. Always has been.
Egg first.
The thing we call a “chicken” never developed as a mating pair, but hatched out as a combination of genes from its parents and ancestry. After several such of these developed into adults and bred again, eventually “chicken” bred true, meaning, with small tweaks and variations over time, “chicken” was NEVER first but came from an egg from disparate, then eventually more similar parents.
I passed this along to Drs. Chris Wells and Stanley Miller (my undergraduate advisers) and it floored them, but they totally understood it.
Settled science.
Unless you’re on the side of “creation science” in which case God put the chickens here as chickens, in which case the answer is chicken.
Adolescent nihilism to continue arguing over this.
Baloney. Nothing ever came out of an egg which was a different species than the parents. Just like nothing ever comes out of a mammal, naturally, that wasn’t in the parents.
That is why evolution is a crock. Goldschmidt’s hopeful monsters.
God also created the egg.
“The thing we call a “chicken” never developed as a mating pair, but hatched out as a combination of genes from its parents and ancestry.”
So the chicken was a mutant of some previous animal that laid eggs.
And so which came first the chickens progenitor or its eggs?
The Stanley Miller? How cool.
I’m glad they understood it.