Which came first, the chicken or the egg?Bill McLain
There are two answers, depending on whether you are a creationist or an evolutionist. If you are a creationist, you believe that God created man and all of the animals on the earth. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense for God to create an egg, so the chicken must have come first. After all, if God created the egg first, there would be no hen to hatch it or to take care of the baby chick once it was hatched. If you are an evolutionist, you believe that animals evolve into different species over time. Therefore, the chicken must have evolved from a former chicken-like creature. At some point in time this creature laid an egg that hatched into a modern chicken. It couldn’t have been a chicken egg, because there was no such thing as a chicken yet. The first chicken egg could only have been laid by the first chicken. Therefore, it doesn’t matter if you are a creationist or an evolutionist, the answer is the same. The chicken came before the egg.