>>279980240His hypothesis isn't entirely unreasonably, but there isn't really enough evidence to claim it as a certain thing. Though I do like the "humans should stand on their own two feet and not rely on a vague concept of god" attitude, even if just from a rule of cool perspective.
>chicken or eggMy reasoning is that at some point there was some bird close to the threshold of what we'd define as "chicken" but not quite there, that laid an egg. The bird hatched from this egg had an extra mutation that pushed it across the threshold to something we would define as "chicken". The sequence of notchicken -> egg -> chicken means the egg came first.
Or I guess from a creation perspective it'd depend on whichever God created first. Maybe both at once, seems like the kind of thing God could do.
>>279980560To be pedantic, egg laying well outdates birds or even dinosaurs. Live births were never really the norm until mammals took the stage. Really this kind of question always seems to come down to what exactly we define as a chicken, and what exactly we define as an egg for that matter.
