It makes sense to me.
It’s a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.
Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal’s life.
Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.
That doesn’t mean that it no longer makes a good metaphor.
That doesn’t make sense as an evolutionary theory. The animal would have to develop first and then egg laying would would simply evolve as another way of creating offspring. Thus, the animal evolved first then the egg laying process evolved next. It seems to me that the “fertilized” egg evolving first is a creationist theory rather than evolutionary. I don’t get his point which seems like a jump to conclusion based on what we don’t know…which again is creationism. : )
hey who cares really it was better wothout knowing god ppl get a life and i would only take 1 person with no experience in any science field to do this romfl you guys got a problem >.
Wow…I was going to leave a comment about how cool it was that they “solved” this question; but after reading all these other comments, I’m still confused and now i just don’t care.
A chicken is a bird, which by definition lays eggs; two creatures mating that were not chickens, but had the combined genetic make-up to produce the first chicken egg, created the first egg that eventually became a chicken. The question is referring to the chicken egg, and not some egg from another species, which is why it creates a dilemma for many people..