who come first egg or hen

India
November 23, 2009 1:17am CST
In our life we have heard that question several time that who come first egg or hen, but nobody got its question, here on mylot my trying to find its ans hope i'll get its ans, so please reply with your point of view that who come first egg or hen and why?
5 responses
@poona_m (336)
• India
23 Nov 09
I will give you pure logic first and then other angles to this question. Starting with a scientific explainationor a hypothesis that I propose. Scientific View: I hope you would know the theory of evolution. mutation is a rampant phenomena in the nature.mutation is the process in which the genes when passing from one generation to the other change in absurd ways. Now this is the basic root of having so many different species of animals, birds and plantsfrom the beginning with a single celled organism. Now as a matter of fact we know an egg is a single cell. so the first bird which can be categorised as hen due to a difference in genes from its parent also came from an egg. But since the parent birds didnt have the same quality as that of the bird we categorize as hen they cannot be called hen/rooster. NOw those parents mated and the female parent laid an egg which have somemutated genes causing the birth of a new species called hen. SO the hen came from an egg which didnt come from a hen. SO by that hypothesis EGG CAME FIRST and then came the hen. Religious View: God created all animals and birds. hen is a bird and so hen came first and then the first hen laid the egg. so HEN CAME FIRST. Comic View: Whatever you order first at the restaurant will come first. so it depends on what you want to eat first.
• Hong Kong
23 Nov 09
poona_m, I like your detailed answer. It provides views from different aspects or angles. I think it is not easy for someone who did not study science to understand or accept the explanation that you had in the first bit. I know what you mean as I studied science in secondary school. However, it is just a hypothesis. Hope the scientists will find out the answer soon, as everybody would like to know it. Thank you. Cheers,
• China
23 Nov 09
this is a very old philosophy question,it is too hard to tell that is first. i personly think that the first should be hen, the cell become hen by some active factors,then hen will give u eggs......
@poona_m (336)
• India
23 Nov 09
egg is a single cell.SO by what you say egg came first not hen
• Philippines
24 Nov 09
There has been a lot of questions to simply know the opinions of member and not because the one who asked doesn't know the answer. The answers are all contained in the same questions asked by previous members. If you use the mylot search bar, you will notice that there are a lot of similar questions. The answer is of course the hen. It was proven scientifically and biblically.
@EARLZHAN (934)
• Philippines
23 Nov 09
Well it is really hard to think about it. But practically speaking I will go for the hen. If the eggs comes first then who lay the eggs? And who sit on the egg so that it will hatch?
@MJAL08 (275)
23 Nov 09
its quite obvious that the chicken did came first. If we'd go back to the story of creation, God created animals, not eggs.