cm0002Feb 20

Just so there's no confusion

https://toast.ooo/post/12364736

Show threadKraidenFeb 20
Even if you’re talking about chicken eggs specifically it’s still the egg first. The first chicken egg would have been laid by a proto chicken
Show threadKacarottFeb 20
I don’t think It’s that clear, are eggs named by what created them, or what they contain? I could certainly see an argument that the first chicken hatched from a proto-chicken egg
Show threadKraiden
Ok, but does it matter what it’s called? If it contains a modern chicken, and it’s an egg, whether it’s a chicken egg, or a proto chicken egg is debatable. But the egg definitely came first
Feb 20 at 8:31pmWeb
Show threadKacarottFeb 20
Not if we are specifically asking about whether the chicken or the chicken egg came first (which is what the original comment in this chain implied), because if proto-chickens lay proto-chicken eggs and a chicken was hatched out of one, then the chicken came before the chicken egg
Show threadKraidenFeb 21
Sure but that’s changing the question, the original question is “which came first, the chicken or the egg” not “the chicken or the chicken egg” so the answer to the question, as posed, is definitely: the egg
Show threadKacarottFeb 21
??? You yourself said “even if we are talking about chicken eggs, it is still the egg first” and I was making a point against that.
Show threadKraidenFeb 21