Monday, May 9, 2016

Paradoxes and Dilemmas #1-The Chicken and the Egg

Paradoxes, dilemmas, and other seemingly impossible things will be pondered in this series!
A conclusion will be made at the end of each of these.

Anyways, let's get into it.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

From a semi-scientific standpoint, these has to have been the egg first, laid by some other animal very similar to a chicken. When the egg hatched, it mutated into a chicken, or this process slowly happened. But the question remains, did that egg come first, or did the animal that make it come first?

There has to have been an origin to this, and while there are many myths and legends that stand the egg came first, then the organism, this question is very probably imponderable.

Conclusion: The paradox itself is resolved somewhat with the answer that the "egg" came first. But the second part of the paradox, which came into play in the middle of resolving the paradox, is imponderable as it goes back before humans existed. So, until time travel (backwards/into the past) is invented, we may never know.



4 comments:

  1. Haha what a transformation to your blog contents!

    "Chicken or egg" cannot be answered as it lacks a clear definition of what a chicken is (e.g. a list of characteristics).

    (The following are my rambling)
    I think the the first bird fulfilling criteria of being a chicken are likely to have its characteristics dominantly from genes (egg carries the genes). I would say egg first in this case.

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