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“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
—Samuel Butler
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So beautiful tought, chessnm. Thanks! 
Beco
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I believe that criteria for determing if two animals are of the same species is the ability to mate and produce ofspring that can reproduce.
consider chickens and an earlier species that evolved into chickens. While a chicken cant reproduce with the more ancient species it is possible in the line of descent each member could have reproduced with a grandparent.
Each mutation might have been so minor that the offspring did not constitute a new species. However the sum of mutations over hundreds of generations might have make it impossible to reproduce with a distant ancestor.
It might not be possible to say that the parents were not a chicken but the egg matured into a chicken.
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As I said earlier in my comments, this could be debated. But in my opinion, If you believe what the science said and evolution, the EGG comes first but if you believe in creation, the CHICKEN comes first. I have a topic earlier that says CREATION OR EVOLUTION and still discussing and debating it.
For me, I believe in Creation because of my faith as a Catholic, so I believe that CHICKEN comes first.
Ray Duque III
New York City
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| Well, the argument on the web page I posted is that if you have an egg and a chicken comes out of it, that must be a chicken egg. Even if the thing that laid the egg wasn't a chicken. I find that pretty convincing. |
I agree with this, also, birds evolved from reptiles who lay eggs.
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But the `something similar to the chicken' was only similar to a chicken. It wasn't actually a chicken.
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