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RE: Chicken or Egg? - Enigma_mybb_import12474 - 06-09-2013
(06-09-2013, 05:37 PM)chmod Wrote:(06-09-2013, 05:33 PM)Enigma Wrote:(06-09-2013, 02:40 PM)chmod Wrote: The egg still came first as the dinosaurs evolved into birds they laid the eggs carrying the next generation and next mutation until eventually a chicken popped out
Yeah, that is the correct answer.
Chickens, as a species, became chickens through a long, slow process of evolution. At some point, a chicken-like bird produced an offspring that, due to some mutation in its DNA, crossed the threshold from mere chicken likeness into chicken actuality. That is to say, a proto-chicken gave birth to a real-life official chicken. And since that real-life official chicken came out of its own egg, we can say that the egg came first.
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How about a praise and a compliment.
RE: Chicken or Egg? - chmod - 06-09-2013
Close enough
RE: Chicken or Egg? - Deque - 06-09-2013
RE: Chicken or Egg? - Shad0w Warr10r - 06-09-2013
The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe in general began.[1]
Cultural references to the Chicken and Egg intend to point out the futility of identifying the first case of a circular cause and consequence. It could be considered that in this approach lies the most fundamental nature of the question. A literal answer is somewhat obvious to some people, as egg-laying species pre-date the existence of chickens. To others, the chicken came first, seeing as chickens are merely domesticated Red Junglefowls. However, the metaphorical view sets a metaphysical ground to the dilemma. To better understand its metaphorical meaning, the question could be reformulated as: "Which came first, X that can't come without Y, or Y that can't come without X?"
An equivalent situation arises in engineering and science known as circular reference, in which a parameter is required to calculate that parameter itself. Examples are Van der Waals equation and the Colebrook equation.
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