Other4815 RE: Atheist's Worst Nightmare: what came 1st? -The Chicken vs Egg Challenge!

This is my response to Other4815´s challenge to Atheists : the ol´ what-came-first brain teaser.
As an Atheist who believes strongly in evolution ; here´s my take on it! (Enjoy=) original vid : www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MGfFPsbfE

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[XxDrRainfallxX]

You know, the simplist answer is usually the correct one... a long long time ago, some bird like creature had a baby. Over the next few hundred generations, those babies began to shrink and produce smaller babies with more feathers and a sharper beak. One day, they layed an egg, and BAM! out popped a small chicken. didnt seem to diffrent from the other creatures so reproduction wasnt a problem. THE END.

[AngieTheSherbert]

@BattleshipTx Oh yeah, good point!

[BattleshipTx]

@AngieTheSherbert "Mutant genes are what causes evolution, right? "

It is one thing that does, but that isn't exclusive at all. It may not be even the most common way. Look at horses. The earliest are quite small, the size of a big dog. Today we have huge Arabian stallions. Was that a mutant gene? Maybe, but probably not. It was just the smaller horses dying without propagating and larger ones living to do so. A biological advantage. It isn't always a wild mutant gene making a sudden change.

[AngieTheSherbert]

@BattleshipTx Mutant genes are what causes evolution, right? Not my field of expertise if i'm honest, still studying biology at school :P

[AngieTheSherbert]

@BattleshipTx If you're going to put it like that... then what is a chicken?! :P The first 'chicken' was probably very different to chickens today - but how different does it have to be until it is no longer classed as a chicken? And even chickens today have thousands of different breeds...

Even so, it would still be the egg if you consider that an animal that is practically a 'chicken' apart from 1 gene could lay an egg containing an animal that is 100% chicken, due to 1 mutant gene.

[BattleshipTx]

@forhisglory723 So how do you see that as impacting this discussion? Are you saying that means eggs came first? Or chickens? Because I could argue either one.

[forhisglory723]

@BattleshipTx: You may want to be Checkin Fox News site for a Chicken vs. Egg article which came out over the last few days. British Scientists discovered a protien which is present, ONLY in the adult females ovaries. Not just chickens either.

[TheAmazingBiped]

You're wrong. The entire chicken vs egg dilemma is based on a misunderstanding of what a species is.

Your assessment of the problem is incorrect.

[panjea23]

like a sledge hammer to the face of reason he shall cower>>>>>>>>>gererrer - Mort.

[ArtWerkZ]

@BattleshipTx but that´s just going back a step..That chicken you´re talking about now, IT came out of an egg.. since all birds & their ancestors start out as eggs necessarily, the egg came first. Both chronologically and in evolutionary terms.