12 Mar 2007, 11:54 am
Corvus wrote:
How can an 'egg' come before a chicken? Really? Not every animal 'lays eggs' and toss in the 'theory of evolution.'
Chicken before the egg, for me - something has to LAY it first.
Chicken before the egg, for me - something has to LAY it first.
Yeh but dinosaurs layed eggs THEN the chicken evolved. Egg, chicken.
12 Mar 2007, 2:33 pm
sigholdaccountlost wrote:
Corvus wrote:
How can an 'egg' come before a chicken? Really? Not every animal 'lays eggs' and toss in the 'theory of evolution.'
Chicken before the egg, for me - something has to LAY it first.
Chicken before the egg, for me - something has to LAY it first.
Yeh but dinosaurs layed eggs THEN the chicken evolved. Egg, chicken.
Ahh, but this assumes that evolution happens in a snap. Dino lays egg, chicken comes out? I think, from what I understand of evolution, we're talking small changes over great lengths of time. This sounds too 'instant.' Dino lays egg, bam chicken? I'm thinking more 'Dino lays egg, slightly modified dino emerges' then the process continues until a 'very chicken like' animal lays an egg with a 'chicken' in it.
After all, if we all came from 'single celled' organism, they didn't lay eggs, they split, so, essentially, the 'cell' came first which lead to the dino which lead to the egg which lead to the chicken - thats my view of this.
12 Mar 2007, 3:35 pm
Corvus wrote:
sigholdaccountlost wrote:
Corvus wrote:
How can an 'egg' come before a chicken? Really? Not every animal 'lays eggs' and toss in the 'theory of evolution.'
Chicken before the egg, for me - something has to LAY it first.
Chicken before the egg, for me - something has to LAY it first.
Yeh but dinosaurs layed eggs THEN the chicken evolved. Egg, chicken.
Ahh, but this assumes that evolution happens in a snap. Dino lays egg, chicken comes out? I think, from what I understand of evolution, we're talking small changes over great lengths of time. This sounds too 'instant.' Dino lays egg, bam chicken? I'm thinking more 'Dino lays egg, slightly modified dino emerges' then the process continues until a 'very chicken like' animal lays an egg with a 'chicken' in it.
After all, if we all came from 'single celled' organism, they didn't lay eggs, they split, so, essentially, the 'cell' came first which lead to the dino which lead to the egg which lead to the chicken - thats my view of this.
No. The point is, the saying never specifies which type of egg it is. So an egg of some sort came before the chicken.
12 Mar 2007, 3:52 pm
OK, I see what the phrase is saying. It stops short (goes back one generation) where as I thought it was trying to figure out what really did come first. I thought 'chicken' was just representing 'animals' in general
12 Mar 2007, 4:25 pm
Corvus wrote:
OK, I see what the phrase is saying. It stops short (goes back one generation) where as I thought it was trying to figure out what really did come first. I thought 'chicken' was just representing 'animals' in general
YAY! That was hard work.
