Originally posted by jac What a dumb question. It's the chicken. Who ever heard of an egg laying a chicken? Please try to keep on topic from here on in. And try to keep in tune with the cognitive complexities embodied here.
Ha! But, at some point in the distant past, a chicken's forebear, which was not quite a chicken, but almost a real chicken, but not quite, one DNA step away, must have laid an egg, which contained an actual chicken, thereby proving, conclusively, that an egg came before a chicken. Or not!