The chicken and egg paradox is only tricky because we assume that the egg and the chicken are discrete units separate from each other.
Let's say at one time chickens gave live birth to chickens. But then there was some evolution where the chicken was born with a little egg on them to keep their feet warm. This worked so well that they were born with egg all over them to keep them warm all over. And then the egg, which was previously not edible, became edible, both keeping the chicken warm and feeding it.
The chicken morphed into the egg laying chicken piece by piece, just at about the same time giraffe's necks were getting longer.
Who's on second, I don't know's on third. Ba dum ching!
Chicks? Eggs? Is there something we should know, Fellows? I've been expecting an announcement. Is there anything we can do to help? I could whip up a stick figure diagram if you like. Hassan would probably give a practical demonstration if you ask him nicely.
Come to think of it, Hassan would probably give a practical demonstration even if you didn't ask him nicely.........
Who's on second, I don't know's on third. Ba dum ching!
Chicks? Eggs? Is there something we should know, Fellows? I've been expecting an announcement. Is there anything we can do to help? I could whip up a stick figure diagram if you like. Hassan would probably give a practical demonstration if you ask him nicely.
Come to think of it, Hassan would probably give a practical demonstration even if you didn't ask him nicely.........
Not trying to start a fight or derail the thread, but I can't answer the question without bringing in evolution. The whole reason that chicken vs. egg, considered in mutually exclusive, only-one-or-the-other terms, is such a classic question is that neither answer, chicken or egg, is very satifactory.
Evolutionary theory renders the question meaningless. Neither came first -- there's just a sequence of more and more chicken-like creatures. I suppose one could draw an arbitrary line and declare the contents of one particular egg in the sequence the Egg of the First Chicken, having been laid and hatched by some not-quite-fully-a-chicken parent, but what would be the point?
If one wishes to postulate sudden Divine Creation, any answer works -- although chicken first (either a male/female pair, or a born-fertilized female) makes more "sense" in that parental care of subsequent eggs is handily provide for. But egg (or eggs) first can work too -- God can just keep throwing around miracles at will to make sure the eggs hatch on their own and that the chicks get fed one way or another until they're ready to fend for themselves.
In which case, the chicken came first. Is this the exception to the rule or should the question be "which came first, the egg or the giant mutant Texan chicken?"
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Originally posted by BR
No, it's called I made a joke and didn't give a shit if it was female or not. And as said previously, chicken can refer to the species.
I don't quite understand your major malfunction... but whatever, if this is enough to make you angry, I sincerely apologize for "ruining" your joke.
Let's say at one time chickens gave live birth to chickens. But then there was some evolution where the chicken was born with a little egg on them to keep their feet warm. This worked so well that they were born with egg all over them to keep them warm all over. And then the egg, which was previously not edible, became edible, both keeping the chicken warm and feeding it.
The chicken morphed into the egg laying chicken piece by piece, just at about the same time giraffe's necks were getting longer.
Later, bifurcation. On account of peer pressure.
On the home planet, the question is "What abides, the cheggin?"
Originally posted by Fellowship
What came first?
Who's on second, I don't know's on third. Ba dum ching!
Chicks? Eggs? Is there something we should know, Fellows? I've been expecting an announcement. Is there anything we can do to help? I could whip up a stick figure diagram if you like. Hassan would probably give a practical demonstration if you ask him nicely.
Come to think of it, Hassan would probably give a practical demonstration even if you didn't ask him nicely.........
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
Behold! My eggs!
On second thoughts, maybe you should try adda for the demo.........
Originally posted by crazychester
Who's on second, I don't know's on third. Ba dum ching!
Chicks? Eggs? Is there something we should know, Fellows? I've been expecting an announcement. Is there anything we can do to help? I could whip up a stick figure diagram if you like. Hassan would probably give a practical demonstration if you ask him nicely.
Come to think of it, Hassan would probably give a practical demonstration even if you didn't ask him nicely.........
Ha! Love your post
Close but no cigar!
Fellows
or shawn.
hassan will do nicely as a christian name in texas.
Originally posted by MarcUK
Fithly, Why didn't you tell us what you think before you engage us all in discussion?
five-and-a-halfly, sitting there all smug thinking that Satan has tricked us all isn't a good way to start a discussion.
Sixthly, happy Ishtar. Have a good weekend worshipping the moon.
Divine-seventhly. Actually just have a good weekend
HAHAHA! Love ya post bro,
I was hoping the Easter Bunny knew a thing or two about where all those eggs came from
Fellows
Originally posted by ShawnJ
or shawn.
Fellows
Like... does Fellows have some news?
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
Hold up, hold up: does Dale have an announcement to make?
Like... does Fellows have some news?
yeah, this thread is an allegory for getting his missus Pregnant.
Good News Dale
Originally posted by MarcUK
yeah, this thread is an allegory for getting his missus Pregnant.
Good News Dale
Not quite,,,,
Not yet,,,,,
Not that I am aware of!!
SERIOUSLY!
Fellows
Originally posted by Fellowship
Not quite,,,,
Not yet,,,,,
Not that I am aware of!!
SERIOUSLY!
Fellows
Why Fellows, I do believe you're being a tease.
I think if it's a girl, you should call her Chester.
Originally posted by crazychester
Why Fellows, I do believe you're being a tease.
I think if it's a girl, you should call her Chester.
If its a boy, call it "Osiris Mithra Dionysus Marcus Fellowship"
If its a chicken call for help!
Originally posted by Fellowship
*This thread is not about evolution vs./ Id.*
Not trying to start a fight or derail the thread, but I can't answer the question without bringing in evolution. The whole reason that chicken vs. egg, considered in mutually exclusive, only-one-or-the-other terms, is such a classic question is that neither answer, chicken or egg, is very satifactory.
Evolutionary theory renders the question meaningless. Neither came first -- there's just a sequence of more and more chicken-like creatures. I suppose one could draw an arbitrary line and declare the contents of one particular egg in the sequence the Egg of the First Chicken, having been laid and hatched by some not-quite-fully-a-chicken parent, but what would be the point?
If one wishes to postulate sudden Divine Creation, any answer works -- although chicken first (either a male/female pair, or a born-fertilized female) makes more "sense" in that parental care of subsequent eggs is handily provide for. But egg (or eggs) first can work too -- God can just keep throwing around miracles at will to make sure the eggs hatch on their own and that the chicks get fed one way or another until they're ready to fend for themselves.
Originally posted by MarcUK
perhaps he got a chicken pregnant?
In which case, the chicken came first. Is this the exception to the rule or should the question be "which came first, the egg or the giant mutant Texan chicken?"