Quote by DarthasThere will never be more data because the question has no starting point.
Why
not? Scientists might somehow reach to a conclusion that there was some bird, who was not quite like a chicken, but over
the years, became a chicken(...lol) and some time in between they can make a fuzzy decision and thus assign a
'starting point' to this argument(in a manner which I've told in previous post) as to whether chicken
came first or egg. And that's what I said, my previous comment argued which point should be assigned as starting
point and concluded saying that we'll need more data of evolution of chicken.
but in case the original post was more like the traditional non-sense no-conclusion light-hearted question which you
think for a while saying, "Hey.. yeah we can't really tell.. well I guess it's one or the other thing for
one or the other reason(the reason itself being too simplistic in most cases), then the answer is both.. cuz in this
sense both are just equally likely cuz the question defines them to be so.. not useful :\
Quote by DarthasToE(theory of evolution) mentions several times that mutations and evolution is possible while an
egg is laid, prior to hatching due to the structure of DNA. The most logical answer would be that the egg was laid and
what hatched wasn't what everyone expected it to be, said subject then laid more eggs of it's kind which
gradually started processes. Science focuses on more material things though and the beginning of all Life usually starts
with an egg.
Similar to the all famous chart of how humans evolved from apes, it didn't happen all in 1 day. Evolution occured
only to forward survival for the 'oddball' community who chose to live outside the norm of the
species.
^ I'd already considered this things (and even more, in the comment) when I'd
posted the previous comment.
Quote by Darthas[color=#D8F781]In strict sense, the only way to find out the
'answer' is to look at how Life began, how it started and what was the reason for how Life came into the
world. In Christianity, people refer to themselves as 'Children of God' - because they believe God made them
in His image. Following that line of thought, one could say: God is how Life started.
While sometimes undeniable (like other theories e.g. the theory that says the world came into existence a second ago
suddenly along with 'false' memories in your brains and behavior of universe is such that it just supports us
believing in those memories), is not too useful for benefit oh humankind. If we get a quick easy answer 'God made
it'(whether it is true or not) to every question we ask then we wouldn't have made progress in medicine.
Quote by DarthasIt's less
logical to assume chickens came first as they have no ancestors pre-dating their existence outside of the oviparous
species.
Oh but if we are to believe theory of evolution, something had to be before chicken which evolved into it over a very long time (in linear ways(as shown
by misleading monkey to man diagram) or non-linear multidimensional ones) into a chicken. And at some point over this
period, (as I said in my previous comment) we can make a fuzzy decision claiming
that this particular stage's species is more closer to chicken that it was to its ancestor.. to a degree which
(as I've mentioned and explained in previous comment) is more than or equal
to the degree of likeness of that stage's egg and current chicken egg and thus leading us to conclude concretely
that chicken came first. But there's a chance that it can be less than the said degree of likeness and it'll
mean that chicken came first. So for this, we'll need to know the likeness of that stage's chicken as well as
egg. i.e. we'll need more data.
This data, I guess can be actual fossils... which I think will be very rare.. or else maybe they'll do complex
science stuff like analysis of DNA of available fossils or something to simulate evolution of at least one type of
chicken from at least one place on earth and hoping that the generated model will be accurate, we can at least claim
with certainty whether the chicken/egg came first in that area at least. But more data is necessary.. and much more than
that, a reason to conduct such an expensive operation on something so seemingly trivial.[/color]
