by Jan G.

Created on: June 20, 2009   Last Updated: June 22, 2009

Shall we attempt to resolve this age old chicken and egg puzzle, and in doing so resolve with it, the ancient question of how we got here. It is in fact the same question asked in a different way. The puzzle is simply on precedence, chicken without the egg which is the absence of its beginning, or egg without the chicken which is the absense of the beginning's beginning.

Let us do a quick logical elimination, if an egg precedes the chicken, it is only so that the chicken shall come to be. However, by manner of nature and its natural course, the egg is to be fertile and incubated, may I rule out with common logic that an egg does not crack itself up in isolation and without the required conditions? In the same line, existence of a chicken if it precedes them all, is not eliminated. Putting a check on the temptation to push the question backwards to square one, which is where did the chicken come from if not preceded by an egg.

Eliminating egg preceed to chicken, we fix ourselves to chicken's precedance. When logic fails to fill the equation, we'd logically turn to theology, and if existence of god works for you, this question in the first place would had sounded amusing. I would say too, if god had created Adam as the first being, he'd probably not had created him as a baby unless the angels did some baby sitting, as a helpless baby is the equivalent of a helpless egg. No way an egg could fend itself from predators before hatching, no way to hatch without warmth.

If you'd tend to argue that the egg could find its way, somehow and someway, forget logic, we see signs of evolution and we are filling the missing links. You are in the same leagues with Darwin's evolutionary theories. We came, we change and we conquer. The pool of genes that somehow came to be, some sparks went off,millions of forgotten light years and its beyond. Single cells and multiple cells, they evolved. They waddled on fours and started walking on two. Along the line, it evolved into a chicken or is it an egg? Could the conditions for hatching the egg still stand? If a mutant non-chicken did have an egg which mutated in the embryo into a chicken, and we are in fact puzzled about, whether we call it a chicken when its still an egg, or we should call it a chicken only after it's hatched. Could I push the arguement back to what preceded the evolved egg, all the way back to its single celled predecessor? This question could not be reasoned with evolutionary theory, one egg and its direct chickling is not significant of mention as everything that moves/stems from the same. The same is the gene pool where it all began. Does not matter from what it evolved from, unless you were asking whether an egg of a chicken was a chicken egg, if what bore it was only evolving into one.

Could I say that, most things in this world cannot be rationalised or resolved simply through reasoning and logic, certain ideas we might tend to believe in, others we learn to eliminate. And we've not solved the puzzle, which mirrors much bigger questions.

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