The eternal question:\u00a0 Which came first?<\/p>\n
The answer is a semantic one:\u00a0 What is your definition of “egg”?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Egg:\u00a0 A gestation device laid by birds, fish, and reptiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n The dinosaurs laid eggs, therefore, the egg pre-dates the chicken.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Egg:\u00a0 A gestation device laid by birds<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Other birds pre-dated the chicken, therefore, the egg came first.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What about a “Chicken Egg”?<\/p>\n What IS a chicken egg?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you define a chicken egg as:\u00a0 An egg LAID BY a chicken, then:<\/strong><\/p>\n The first “chicken egg” had to follow the first chicken in order to be laid by one, thus, the chicken came first<\/strong>.\u00a0 We assume the first CHICKEN came from the egg of some other slightly different bird variety that was NOT a chicken.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you define a chicken egg as:\u00a0 An egg FROM WHICH a chicken is hatched, then:<\/strong><\/p>\n Some other slightly different bird variety laid the first CHICKEN EGG, which subsequently produced the first CHICKEN.\u00a0 Thus, the chicken egg came first<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chicken vs. Egg The eternal question:\u00a0 Which came first? The answer is a semantic one:\u00a0 What is your definition of “egg”? Egg:\u00a0 A gestation device laid by birds, fish, and reptiles. The dinosaurs laid eggs, therefore, the egg pre-dates the chicken. Egg:\u00a0 A gestation device laid by birds. Other birds pre-dated the chicken, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-other-stuff","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}