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Chicken vs Egg (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (34 children)

The chicken vs egg question has never been about chronology or science.

It’s been about religion vs science.

Science says the egg came first: something nearly imperceptibly not quite a chicken laid an egg that hatched a chicken. That’s how evolution works, with the egg coming first.

Religion says a god poofed a chicken into existence. The chicken came first, and only ever laid pure chicken eggs. The eggs will forever hatch a chicken and nothing but a chicken.

That’s the chicken vs egg thing. It’s not a puzzle at all, it’s just science vs religion.

e: simplified. I’m too wordy by default.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

This is by far the most correct answer to the chicken and egg question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Not really, it still doesn't answer the question as the main thing is still unclear.

Is the first chicken egg the one the chicken hatched from or the first egg a chicken laid.

Both can be argued as correct.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What came first? Chicken or egg?

It doesn’t say if the question is about “chicken egg” but only egg

Otherwise the question would be:

What came first? Chicken or chicken egg?

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