Thread: The hen or the egg?

Hk_mp5kpdw, species designations are kind of arbitrary. You cannot make a cut-off point between the parents and children and say on one side they are ancestral species A and on the other descendant species B. Species distinguish themselves over several generations.

An analogy is that you cannot make a clean cut-off point between Vulgar Latin/Romance and Old French, Old Spanish, etc. It's another case of a slow build up of change over time.

Okay, now for my answer to the question: The chicken came at the same time as the chicken egg because the egg is a developing chicken!

It is obvious that an egg cannot hatch itself. It is equally obvious that a chicken needs an egg to hatch from.

Therefore, what happened can be one of two things:

A. A time machine in the future was used to place two fully mature chickens (male/female) into the past. From there came chickens and eggs. Its seems that they come from nowhere then. This idea may seem strange, but seen in the light of time traveling, is quite normal. Where the began before the time loop was established is immaterial, for once the time loop has been established, the time-space continium has altered to erase that start.

B. God created chickens and eggs simultaniously.

Therefore, by Occam's Razor, I declare B the simpler theorem. This does presuppose that the is a God, but I have seen His works personally, therefore I have no problem in beleiving in Him.

That's all folks !

Gustav

It works like this.

Someone invents a time machine. Then he builds that time machine. Then he sends back the plans FOR the time machine BEFORE he invented it. Then he never has to invent the time machine. See ?

The same happens with the egg/chickens.

The chickens/eggs came from somewhere, doesn't matter where/how/when. Then, someone in the future sent them back in time. A time loop is created, and suddenly chickens and eggs don't NEED to come from somewhere. They come from the future. See ? Simple as that.

Gustav

Things DO just appear. Especially if you have a time machine.

Things DISSAPEAR just as often. How many times have you lost small pens, trinkets, keys, that just had no POSSIBLE way to go anywhere? THEY all dissapear to the nearest Bermuda triangle. I'm convinced that if you created a small Bermuda triangle on your desk, for instance, that it would attract all the local time-space related dissapearances in the neighbourhood. You'd have so many pens and keys and stuff, you'd not know what to DO with them!

Now hush up. As I said, God made the chickens and the eggs. You can ask him one day when you meet him.

Gustav

You have set forth no logical hypothesis of your own. Instead you have sniped uselessly at mine in a futile attempt to prove me wrong.

Get your own #@$@# hypothesis and leave mine alone!

I hereby declare myself right.

If you like, you are hereby declared right as well.

So there.

Gustav
(Muhahaha)