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Re: What came first?

Postby beefhole » Fri May 26, 2006 5:47 am

Perplexing question indeed.

Not really, unless one doesn't have one's religious beliefs in order! ;D
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Re: What came first?

Postby Souichiro » Fri May 26, 2006 5:57 am

And what would the first chicken have thought when he crapped out it's first eggs?
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Re: What came first?

Postby Theis » Fri May 26, 2006 6:57 am

And what would the first chicken have thought when he crapped out it's first eggs?


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Re: What came first?

Postby Jakemaster » Fri May 26, 2006 7:10 am

Neither.  Youd need at least 2 eggs or 2 chickens to sustain a species, so that means that the chicken didnt come first and the egg didnt come first.
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Re: What came first?

Postby expat » Fri May 26, 2006 7:20 am

From Sky News today

Egg Conundrum Is Cracked
Updated: 08:50, Friday May 26, 2006

A geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have finally solved the age-old question: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Apparently, 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.
Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, said the pecking order was clear.
The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.
"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So I would conclude that the egg came first."
Fellow "eggspert" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns agreed with the verdict.
Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, reasoned that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.
The debate was organised by Disney to promote the release of the film Chicken Little on DVD.

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Re: What came first?

Postby Tweek » Fri May 26, 2006 7:52 am

Which is exactly why the question is wrong. It should be "What came first, the animal or the egg?"

I can't believe it's taken them this long to work out, when millions of people worldwide already had!
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Re: What came first?

Postby cspyro21 » Fri May 26, 2006 7:57 am

Which is exactly why the question is wrong. It should be "What came first, the animal or the egg?"

I can't believe it's taken them this long to work out, when millions of people worldwide already had!


Mind you, Tweek, the science-people also work out why "x" came first before "y" witha scientific explanation, whereas us normal people just work out what came first. ;)
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Re: What came first?

Postby Politically Incorrect » Fri May 26, 2006 8:12 am

Now since that is settled...

Why do we drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?
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Re: What came first?

Postby Souichiro » Fri May 26, 2006 8:39 am

We know that currently there are no changes in dna now. but We can never be certain of what happened millions of years ago.

Why do we drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?  


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Re: What came first?

Postby Hagar » Fri May 26, 2006 8:51 am

Why do we drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?

Well, this only seems to apply in some parts of America. :P

Regional Note: To the majority of Americans, the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street is called simply the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street.

However, in some parts of the country, it has acquired specific names. In the Midwest and West, it is often called the parking or parkway, and in Washington State it is the parking strip, according to the survey conducted by the Dictionary of American Regional English. In the Upper Midwest, it is also known as the boulevard or boulevard strip; around the Great Lakes and in the Midwest, it is sometimes a terrace; around the Great Lakes and in especially northeastern Ohio, it is also called a tree lawn. In Massachusetts it is a tree belt; in the Atlantic states, sometimes a grassplot; and in Louisiana and Mississippi, neutral ground. Some of these words are also used for the grassy strip in the middle of a street or highway.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=parking

PS. In England it would be called the grass verge.
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Re: What came first?

Postby Fozzer » Fri May 26, 2006 8:59 am

...outside of my front door, I call it....
.... "The road"...!

...park or drive...

...sorted... ;D...!

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Re: What came first?

Postby flyboy 28 » Fri May 26, 2006 9:45 am

The answer is fourty-two.
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Re: What came first?

Postby Brett_Henderson » Fri May 26, 2006 12:20 pm

From Sky News today

Egg Conundrum Is Cracked
Updated: 08:50, Friday May 26, 2006

A geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have finally solved the age-old question: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Apparently, 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.
Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, said the pecking order was clear.
The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.
"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So I would conclude that the egg came first."
Fellow "eggspert" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns agreed with the verdict.
Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, reasoned that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.
The debate was organised by Disney to promote the release of the film Chicken Little on DVD.

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Re: What came first?

Postby Hai Perso Coyone? » Fri May 26, 2006 12:25 pm

The egg...this is because the modern chicken is an evolved reptile that was at some point incubated in an egg... ;)
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Postby Scorpiоn » Fri May 26, 2006 1:56 pm

Why do we drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?

This assumes you ever even heard the word parkway, is a parkway a freeway?

Well, this only seems to apply in some parts of America. :P

Regional Note: To the majority of Americans, the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street is called simply the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street.

PS. In England it would be called the grass verge.

How nice and logical! 8) A rarity!
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