Egg or Chicken?

I came in, and looked at the thingy with the stuff... the blog, and I was blown away! Someone else updated! I was fuckin' amazed! Thanks Josh!

Okay, so he posed a question:

Logically explain how the chicken may have came
before the egg, or the egg came before the chicken.

Philosophers will treat it as a conumdrum, if you will, as it is difficult to prove one way or the other. This may be tackled, however, by shipping a chicken, and an egg to your philosopher teacher, to determine which came first. If you don't feel like being so entirely cruel to the chicken, you may use a stuffed chicken, and a hard boiled egg.

The purpose of the question is to illustrate that it's difficult sometimes to establish the exact origin of something, anything. The question is rarely answered.

Short answer: Eggs predate chickens by about 249 million years.

Here's why:

If a chicken were to trace it's roots, the chicken, let's call her Dida, would trace her roots way, way back, and then finally discover that she had some Non-chicken grandparents. Dida would discover that her ancestor chickens were in Thailand - a species of Red Jungle Fowl. Darwin suspected the Red Jungle Fowl to be the "original" chicken, and all chickens to have since evolved from them. This theory is that "domestic" chickens evolved from the Red Jungle Fowl, 8,000 years ago, and were used for cockfighting, and later, eating.

The Red Jungle Fowl is not exactly a chicken. So, in theory, Dida's great x 100 grandmother which emerged from an egg in all of her glory, came from the crossbreading of various jungle fowl, meaning the Egg came first, from the Red Jungle Fowl.

Where did the Red Jungle Fowl come from? The most popular theory is that the Red Jungle Fowl evolved from birds, which evolved from a suspected egg-laying, feathered dinosaur.

But then where did the Egg come from?

Scientests have come to believe that eggs have been in existance for over 1 billion years. Eggs are thought to be the incubators of life. When land animals evolved 250 million years ago from the ocean animals, their eggs originally had a thick covering on the outside to keep out moisture, and keep the baby animal dry while it grew. The first land egg predates the chicken by apx 249 million years.