On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:44 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 4:48 PM -0400 7/5/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
> >On 7/5/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:04 -0500, Kaleb Pomeroy wrote:
> >>> Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
> >>
> >>The egg, fish were laying them long before chickens walked the earth :)
> >
> > Yeah, good point, smartass. ;-P
>
> Yeah, fish got all the action back then.
>
> But actually, it was dinosaurs.
Ummmmm... fish predate all land creatures according to evolution....
that's not to say something with eggs didn't predate fish, but I'm too
lazy to go look.
But dwelling on the topic, the chicken egg problem is actually stated
incorrectly to some degree, it's a more interesting question to ask:
What came first? The chicken or the chicken egg?
Now this question is only perplexing until you realize that the concept
of "chicken egg" is ambiguous. Is a "chicken egg" an egg that was
created by a chicken, or an egg from which a chicken hatches? As such,
there are two possible answers to the age old question...
Case 1: a "chicken egg" is defined by having been created
by a chicken.
In this case the chicken must have come first :)
Case 2: a "chicken egg" is defined by being an egg from
which a chicken hatches.
In this case the egg comes first since the first
genetic chicken was born from an egg created by
it's direct ancestor that was not a chicken.
See... it's not perplexing at all :)
Cheers,
Rob.
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