"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
How many people on earth are stupid enough to think this is even a question in this day and age? It doesn't matter what you believe about the world or about life or about origins or descents. There's no question about it either way!
"Which came first"???!!! What are you a MORON!?!?!!!??
I ask you: how easy does this have to be before people get it? There are only two basic scenarios to deal with here. Like I said - in neither case is there even a question as to "which came first"!
Let's examine.
Chicken or Egg 1: The God Version
In the God version, chicken came first. Duh. God created fully-fledged animals, already ready to forage and fend. Not a bunch of fetal organisms in inchoate form! Imagine how gross that would have been. Plus, most of the just-hatched hatchlings would have died right off. No adults to pop juicy worms into yawning beaks! Or whatever it is they eat. Gravel?
Chicken or Egg 2: The No-God Version
In the No-God Version, egg came first. Well, what laid the egg then, you ask? EVEN BIGGER DUH. It was the closest genetic predecessor of the very first chicken! In other words, the first chicken was a mutant. Which is pretty cool.
N.B.
There are also some possible "smartass answers," for instance, the No-God smartass answer "the egg came first, because there were egg-laying animals in the oceans and then on land, long before the appearance of birds - let alone chickens!" But this puff of anal sophistry makes hardly a whiff of difference, since we've already established "egg" as the proper No-God answer. Egg is egg, as they say. Then you might have some God-versioners who might claim, "but both birds and sea creatures were created on the 5th Day of creation...therefore, it's a tie!"
But I ask you: just how in heck is that supposed to make sense?
How many people on earth are stupid enough to think this is even a question in this day and age? It doesn't matter what you believe about the world or about life or about origins or descents. There's no question about it either way!
"Which came first"???!!! What are you a MORON!?!?!!!??
I ask you: how easy does this have to be before people get it? There are only two basic scenarios to deal with here. Like I said - in neither case is there even a question as to "which came first"!
Let's examine.
Chicken or Egg 1: The God Version
In the God version, chicken came first. Duh. God created fully-fledged animals, already ready to forage and fend. Not a bunch of fetal organisms in inchoate form! Imagine how gross that would have been. Plus, most of the just-hatched hatchlings would have died right off. No adults to pop juicy worms into yawning beaks! Or whatever it is they eat. Gravel?
Chicken or Egg 2: The No-God Version
In the No-God Version, egg came first. Well, what laid the egg then, you ask? EVEN BIGGER DUH. It was the closest genetic predecessor of the very first chicken! In other words, the first chicken was a mutant. Which is pretty cool.
N.B.
There are also some possible "smartass answers," for instance, the No-God smartass answer "the egg came first, because there were egg-laying animals in the oceans and then on land, long before the appearance of birds - let alone chickens!" But this puff of anal sophistry makes hardly a whiff of difference, since we've already established "egg" as the proper No-God answer. Egg is egg, as they say. Then you might have some God-versioners who might claim, "but both birds and sea creatures were created on the 5th Day of creation...therefore, it's a tie!"
But I ask you: just how in heck is that supposed to make sense?
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