Which came first - the chicken or the egg? (new solution)

[mos_jkh]

Looks like I found a new solution to this old scholastic problem. Never seen such decision in works of Plutarch, Macrobius,
and others. (See. [1] and cited therein, and [2], [3]), so i consider myself as a pioneer - and if anyone thinks otherwise - please convincingly speak

Comments

[anfalicious]

The first chicken came from an egg laid by a proto-chicken. Ergo, egg came first.

Another one I like is "do you see the glass half empty or half full?" If you're in the process of filling the glass and it's at the half way mark, it's half full. If you're drinking the liquid and it reaches half way, it's half empty. The whole "this is about your outlook on life" thing is false, as it's a function of the process order.

[mos_jkh]

'The first chicken came from an egg'

From the 1-st point of view, that egg wasn't a chicken egg.
(And in this point was a small error in reasoning - now i correct it).

[mos_jkh]

If you fill a glass and ask - how much is left to pour - the glass is half empty;
if you ask - how much is already poured - a glass half full.

If you drink from a glass and ask - how much is left to drink - a glass half full;
if you ask - how much I drank - the glass is half empty.

So, your answer depends on your plans and your assessments of the situation.
A glass itself (and water) do not ask such questions.

[maadmike]

When I first heard this question in my youth I thought precisely the same way. If we assume that the chicken is not similar to her ancestors animals, then an egg is first. If we take that chicken is animal similar to all animals before her, then an animal was first.

[mos_jkh]

"chicken is animal similar to all animals before her"

can't see evolution in this assumption.

[maadmike]

What assumption do you mean?

[maadmike]

I wanted to say that if a chicken is same to all her ancestor animals, which was birds with eggs, reptiles with eggs was before birds, and so on and on to the ancestor’s animal without eggs but with some spawn maybe…

[anonymous]

To All,
What came first was; 'the Idea' of a chicken that lays eggs.