I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Disease Zone. It has scientists studying theĀ causes and processes ofĀ illness . Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Actually, it was the chicken, as a British group of scientists demonstrated a couple of years ago.
More seriously, though, the reason that ‘which came first, the chicken or the egg?’ seems like a paradox (a statement that seems to lead to a contradiction, such as how do you get the egg without the chicken, and how do you get the chicken without the egg?), is because, like many paradoxes, it’s actually the wrong question. Evolution doesn’t work by a non-chicken suddenly laying an egg that leads to a chicken; evolution is a gradual process that works on entire populations. It’s hard to explain in so short a space, but the end result is that some past non-chicken population split off at some point from their common ancestor (which was probably the bird that lead to chickens and quails or chickens and ducks) and began to change so that they looked more and more like chickens. The point is that there’s no first egg that came from a chicken or first chicken that laid an egg, but that it happened together over many generations!
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Dear Sarahb ; It is another question of ‘beginning of life’, I suppose. As far as beginning of life is concerned, I take the stand of ‘Creator’ involved. After the creation of life by Creator, I don’t deny evolution in certain sense, but not all. I think creation and evolution describes different time and stage as a total.
Therefore, instead of ‘The chichen or the egg’, ‘Either the chicken or the egg’ will do it. All life form came to exist by Creator, not by itself; the chicken can lay eggs, the egg can hatch into chicken!
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Sarahb – this one is way outside my area! But I like Steven’s answer a lot, so thanks for asking š I’ve learned something new today and will remember that next time someone asks me this question.
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Let’s just go for the chicken! It’s impossible for an egg to develop and hatch without the help of a chicken.
what’s your answer?
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