OT: Who came first?

[Alexlind123]

Chicken!!

[Blitzkrieg Bob]

and the Hen was left to sleep on the wet spot.

[ProZak]

and the Hen was left to sleep on the wet spot.

lmao. I was just thinking that.

[sKilled]

Thanks for ruining my lunch Blitzkrieg.

[Jon K]

Kfc

[angrypancake]

Kfc

is only ~30% "chicken" and therefore cannot be called kentucky fried chicken

[Jay 535i]

There is no such thing as either a "chicken" or an "egg".

You take "chicken" and "egg" to each be absolute, finite notions, when in fact those notions are strictly human conventions, and chickens and eggs are both really points on a continuum. The names we give them are practical, but force an unnatural conception of that animal as though it is frozen in time, when in fact it is a dynamic, evolving species, ever-changing.

The chicken is on the continuum of whatever branch of evolution chickens are on -- starting way back when with unicellular organisms and ending up wherever that branch of evolution is going to end up. Eggs are on the continuum of the lifecycle, beginning with the primitive mitosis of unicellular organisms and culminating in the death of an adult complex organism.

Since each is just a point on a smooth continuum, one cannot say where either the chicken or the egg actually begin and end. And so it cannot be determined which came first.

Furthermore, the egg is part of the chicken, existing outside its body. You can no more ask "which came first -- chicken or egg" than you can ask "which came first -- one or two". Each is meaningless without the other. A chicken that does not lay eggs is not a chicken. An egg which did not come from a chicken is not an egg. The answer is tautological. The very definitions of "chicken" and "egg" preclude one coming before the other.

Howzat?

[DaveVoorhis]

There is no such thing as either a "chicken" or an "egg".

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Howzat?

You get an "A" on the exam.

[Alexlind123]

Since each is just a point on a smooth continuum, one cannot say where either the chicken or the egg actually begin and end. Howzat?

The egg begins when it drops outta the chicken. It ends when it hatches.

Howzat?

[Jay 535i]

The egg begins when it drops outta the chicken. It ends when it hatches.

Howzat?

That's just one egg. I was talking about more general eggdom. As in, the evolution of eggs as sex cells. Not just the life of one egg.