Sometimes
I find my mind wandering over various eclectic topics and occasionally I am
inspired to write some of them down. Today I was thinking about what is
generally viewed as the unsolvable issue of the Chicken
and Egg.
It seems to many an inescapable riddle as
to which came first – was it the chicken or was it the egg?
Personally, I don’t consider this
particularly difficult to work out. The answer is the chicken. Problem solved.
If you’re wondering how or why I came to
this conclusion then basically, it’s because you would need a
chicken to produce an egg (to produce a chicken to produce an egg – ad
nauseum).
While it is could be said that you need an
egg to get a chicken, without a chicken the egg will not hatch – ergo an egg on
its own would be useless/pointless – the chicken would need to be first.
Whether you prefer the creationist view or
evolutionist view the same would hold true as in the creationist theory a
chicken would have been created along with all the other animals and in an
evolutionist view a chicken would have evolved along with all the other animals
– i.e. regardless of whether it is a live-young-birthing mammal or an
egg-laying bird it would have developed from another organism.
Of course, if I have overlooked a crucial
detail in my solution I would be happy to be enlightened.
