What came first the chicken or the egg?

Question

What came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer

Well, you could argue that the egg came first, because dinosaurs laid eggs.brbrHowever, i assume what you mean to ask is, what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg.brbrNow, if this is our question then it raises a few issues.brbrAt some point in the past there was an animal that was nearly a chicken, but hadnt quite evolved into a chicken yet. So, this animal, which we will call a blaa, will lay an egg that will contain a chicken.brbrSo, the question becomes this. When i go to a farm i can pretty easily find a chicken egg. This is fine. But is it called a chicken egg because it was laid by a chicken, or because it contains a chicken.brbrIf it is called a chicken egg because it was laid by a chicken, then this means the egg that the blaa laid, which contained the first chicken, will be called a blaa egg, in which case the chicken came before the chicken egg.brbrHowever, if it is called a chicken egg because it contains a chicken, then this will mean that the egg that the blaa laid, which contained the first chicken, will be called a chicken egg, in which case the chicken egg came before the chicken.brbrSo, the answer to the age old question of which came first all comes down to how you define a chicken egg.