Thread: Why Christians are not just a load of backwards imbeciles.

Originally Posted by stonedape

No clue about the chicken or the egg, but I hypothesize it was the chicken. I'm not expert on evolution, but it seems the chicken could have evolved from some other organism that did not need eggs to reproduce.

For what it's worth, the chicken most definitely did not evolve from an organism that didn't need eggs. It's widely believed that the chicken evolved from the Red Jungle Fowl although some people have recently been claiming that another one of the Jungle Fowl's (forget which) got involved through a hybridization process. At any rate, all jungle fowls rely on eggs for reproduction. Indeed, the entire quail family does so.

So eggs were around long before chickens or even amphibians. The egg most definitely came first. This is unequivocal.