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POLL: Following the half-full glass poll: the chicken or the egg poll!

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Ancalìmon, Jun 3, 2003.

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  1. Ancalìmon Gems: 14/31
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    Wich one was first, the chicken or the egg?

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    Poll Results: Following the half-full glass poll: the chicken or the egg poll! (29 votes.)

    Wich one was first, the chicken or the egg? (Choose 1)
    * Definatly the chicken. - 31% (9)
    * No, the egg! - 69% (20)
     
    Ancalìmon, Jun 3, 2003
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  2. trillex Gems: 13/31
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    The egg, definetly. Where did the first dinosaurus come from? An egg!
     
    trillex, Jun 3, 2003
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    Well, a dinosour is not a chicken! Although they do have a relation in evolution.
     
    Ancalìmon, Jun 3, 2003
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    Actually, the first dinosaur evolved from a amfibian, which evolved from a fish, which evolved from etcetera.

    The question of which was first is a flawed question in itself, as there was no 'first' because evolution is a process. There was no point at which apes simply became humans, it's a proces of many many years.

    So the answer, if you still want one, is: Neither, and both of them. :D
     
    Faragon, Jun 3, 2003
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    How do you know that for sure? :D
     
    Ancalìmon, Jun 3, 2003
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    They don't say it's a chicken egg.
     
    trillex, Jun 3, 2003
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  7. 8people

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    [​IMG] The egg. The egg of dinosaurs and other reptillian creatures that came before birds.

    You could always argue that the chicken hatched from the egg to lay more, if the chicken came first then it wouldn't have done.
     
    8people, Jun 3, 2003
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    The egg for my breakfast and the chicken for tea ;) .
     
    The Kilted Crusader, Jun 3, 2003
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    Morgoth La lune ne garde aucune rancune Veteran

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    Wether it was the chicken or the egg is not important, what's important is: who laid the chicken?
     
    Morgoth, Jun 3, 2003
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    I'd like to see if BTA has a clever answer for this one as he did for the half full/empty glass one.
     
    Blog, Jun 3, 2003
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    Laying a chicken must be an extraordinarily painful process. I hope few hens have to go through that.
     
    Oaz, Jun 3, 2003
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    I'm with Morningstar. The egg came first because I had it for breakfast. I had the chicken later. Mmmmm...mmmmm. Tasty!
     
    Blackthorne TA, Jun 3, 2003
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    Yes it is a process but the real question is how do we define what a chicken (or human or ape) is. If we say that the name "chicken" applies to a bird with certain characteristics and we then follow the evolutionary chain back far enough you would, if you term "chicken" was defined well enough, eventually get to the point where you had a bird that barely met the parameters to be qualified as a chicken being born from an egg laid by a bird that was barely outside of those parameters. Thus the egg came first.
     
    JSBB, Jun 3, 2003
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    To my knowledge chickens don't lay eggs, so the egg must have been first. Nice Trap Ancalimon :1eye:


    Anyways
    If you mean what was first; the egg or the hen then let me just point to you that offspring is always the end of an evolutionary circle(the parents) and the beginning of a new circle(the offspring). You see? It is both the beginning and the end. When something is both, it is both... nuff said. what came first? you got it right mister. Both :hahaerr:

    More Anyways
    What JSBB says is absolutely beautifull if we ask the question what came first the egg-hen-egg or the hen-egg-hen. sorry about the complications. How many did I loose? Not eggs. Persons. :square:
     
    Nobleman, Jun 3, 2003
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  15. Arabwel

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    Well, my opinion is that the Egg came first. Why? You see, once upon a time there was a creature. A very chicken-like creature but not exactly one. Then, one day, evolution happened and it produced the first egg ever to contain a chicken that was a chicken, not just "almost" chicken.

    There :p
     
    Arabwel, Jun 4, 2003
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    Has anyone ever thought that they could of just "popped" into exsitance at the same time? You know, like sofas (sp?) do, in the middle of the Lords Cricket pitch.
     
    Rotku, Jun 4, 2003
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    Well, I suppose that a chicken could have come back in time from a couple of million years in the future after evolving from humans...
     
    Aikanaro, Jun 4, 2003
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    THE EGG. Duh.
     
    Eze, Jun 4, 2003
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    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    So a newly hatched chick could somehow surive without a parent to provide food, protection, and TLC?!?!?!? I don't think so. Just like man, I believe that god placed both a grown male and a female on earth...though I doubt the chickens were lurred into the eating of any forbidden fruit. :p

    So unless you believe that newborn babies can surive totally on thier own from birth, the obvious answer is: The Chicken! :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Jun 5, 2003
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    I think I'm with Arabwel on this one. the discussion can and will go on forever...
     
    Ancalìmon, Jun 5, 2003
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