The Egg and the Chicken

Ahh, the age old question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Well, as stated in the question, the chicken comes first in the sentence so from that view: the chicken came first.

Which one came first? Gross, not answering that.

Jokes aside, if I get serious - and semantic - it depends on if you subscribe to Evolution… and what you consider to be a true chicken.

If you do not believe in Evolution, then the origin of the chicken (or egg, even) would have likely originated from some divine entity (choose your God(s)) snapping their metaphorical fingers or through some other unknowable, inconceiveable method instantiating the first existence of what we might call a chicken. It would be unlikely, at least from a mere mortal’s perspective, that this divine being would’ve spawned an egg to hatch this first chicken. So, in that view, the chicken came first.

If you do believe in Evolution, then you must decide whether you would allow a non-chicken animal to create a mutated egg, within which become the first of an animal you would call a chicken. If you would allow this non-chicken to create a chicken egg, as presumably the mutations between species occur during fetus formation, then you would alongside me saying that the egg came first.

However, if you persist that a chicken egg must be laid by something you call a chicken, then it might only be when two simultaneously mutated offspring that you consider both as chickens breed together to create an egg, would the first chicken egg come into fruition, thus those two chickens came first. Less stringently, if you allow interspeical ‘rape’ of a female chicken - the first mutated of its kind - by a non-chicken to create a valid chicken egg, then still that female chicken was the first of chickenkind.

It is of my opinion that the mutated egg created by this chicken ancestor can be called a chicken egg, thus the egg came first. Final answer. And yes, I did have eggs for breakfast this morning. And not for the first or last time either.