In you're opinion what came first?
back up you're reason with scientific proof if you can.

The egg. An egg is easier to form. How can a chicken exist without first being an egg? It doesn't fit with the process of growing.

egg because a dinosaur could have laid the egg and the chicken came out of it

~~~yes i understand this is an oversimplification of evolution, don't bother quoting me

^^@hardbrit

I have to debate that a tiny bit. perhaps the pre historic bird that the chicken originated/evolved from was transforming as he was evolving into a chicken and became the first chicken. plus how can an egg survive without a chicken to protect it and keep it warm . idk :S

The chicken (type thing). It needs to poop out an egg obviously. Eggs don't come out of thin air

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yes you are right though, you need a mommy chicken to actually take care of the egg (or is it the dad who takes care of it...idk i might be thinking of penguins)

either way le chicken > le egg

God created the chicken, which laid the first egg.

Two birds that weren't really chickens created a chicken egg, and hence, therefore the egg came first, and then it hatched a chicken.

wait a minute boy. If I learned anything in bio it's that the chicken came first!

Eggs (which hatch chickens) have a protein called OV-17 which are ONLY found in chicken ovaries. So that means whatever two birds laid the first chicken (through a mutation) the egg didn't have OV-17 which means it wasn't really a chicken that came from it. However two mutated chicken birds who had that protein mated and created an egg with OV-17 that technically created chicken.

So yes, the two birds with the OV-17 were technically the first two chickens! Without a chicken, you technically can't get a chicken egg!

Chickens evolved from some reptilian species over the course of many years so it's very hard to tell when the chicken became a chicken. Darwinism does not allow for a definite answer to this question.

This.
But it still goes back to the same thing, who came first the chicken-like bird or the egg it was hatched from?

but then did the chicken marry a non chicken bird like his parents since he was the only real chicken? wouldnt that dilute his heritage and DNA? this is some inception shizz lol

kk y'all stick with me here I am a molecular biologist and know what I'm talking about (truthfully there's no general consensus. MOST people are on #TeamEgg but neither team can be confirmed correct).

I personally am #TeamChicken for this reason


For a chicken to become a chicken, the egg that hatches the chicken needs to contain a protein that's labelled OV-17. If the egg does NOT contain that protein, it is not considered a chicken egg and will not hatch a chicken, ever.

In history the ancestors of chickens (not chickens themselves) laid an egg. During the embryonic stage when the DNA was being made, a mutation was going on inside the egg and the birthed animal contained the OV-17 protein, so it was more than likely the first chicken. However the egg it came out of was NOT a chicken egg because the egg itself didn't have that protein and its parents were NOT chickens. So a chicken literally came out of thin air. Now, this chicken mated with another similarly structured animal and created an egg with an official OV-17 protein in it (it obviously got its gene from the mother chicken) and that was the FIRST chicken egg as it came from a chicken. You obviously can't birth a chicken egg without a chicken right?

Anyways yes that's why I am #TeamChicken but there's also a similarly strong argument for #TeamEgg as well.

PREACH IT! #TeamChicken 4 ever!

Egg.

I'm too high to explain why though.

#TeamChicken

Fast forward through time to the first proto-chicken, which probably evolved from some form of dinosaur, laid an egg and over time evolution gave us the delicious chicken we know today.

Egg.
I mean, we all evolved from bacteria in the very beginning anyways. Easier for bacteria to transition into an egg than into a chicken

bacteria historically transformed into mini organisms which then transformed into bigger ones. they never evolved into the egg stage. its always been bacteria ------>thousands of years pass-->creature is formed.

plus how could an egg take cae of itself and hatch. i doubt a random dinausor bird thing just adopted that egg and waited till it hatched into a tasty looking chicken