The Chicken or The Egg

By Noah Solovey

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

You are living under a rock if you haven’t heard this question asked before. It’s a question that doesn’t leave your head once it enters, instead, it swarms around making you always rethink your answer. For me, it’s obvious. The egg came first. This might sound like gibberish but think about it this way: the egg made the chicken, the chicken didn’t make the egg that it came out of. Does that make sense to you? You might say, but what made the egg? A chicken! So technically, can’t you reverse that question and make it: the chicken made the egg, the egg that the chicken made didn’t make the chicken? I get this reason, so why not bounce back at you with another reason? This reason is a bit nerdier, but let me explain: Dinosaurs were hatched from eggs, so if you think outside the box, the chicken came way after the dinosaurs, and dinosaurs were hatched out of eggs. So that is the one and only way I can literally prove to you the egg came first. But before I leave you, what came first: the egg, or the dinosaur?

I don’t want to give up answering unanswered questions, so I’m going to answer my own question about the dinosaur and the egg. The egg came first because when you look at it from a nerdy standpoint (again) dinosaurs evolved from a reptile called dinosauromorphs. So the egg came first! But dinosauromorphs were hatched from eggs. Oh no. But before I leave you, what came first, the egg or the dinosauromorphs?

I’m not going to stop there! I’m going to dig even deeper into this mystery! Looking at it from yet another nerdy standpoint, dinosauromorphs evolved from dinosauromorpha and those were hatched from eggs. So eggs came first. Oh no. But before I leave you, what came first, the egg or the dinosauromorpha?

You might be expecting where I’m about to go next. But this time, I have to do all the research myself. There is literally nothing on dinosauromorpha, so I found a few things. Dinosauromorpha also evolved into crocodiles and birds, and both those animals hatch from eggs. But I want to bring you back to the first paragraph where I said: the egg made the chicken, the chicken didn’t make the egg that it came out of. Now I am going to replace the word chicken with the word dinosauromorpha. (Sidenote: dinosauromorpha has so little information that Grammarly is trying to say I spelled dinosaur wrong.) That would the sentence: the egg made the dinosauromorpha, the dinosauromorpha didn’t make the egg that it hatched from. So finally, I’ve discovered the true answer to this. The egg came first. In each and all of these situations, my reason outsmarts all the other ones. And if you want a little bonus, chickens evolved from birds and birds evolved from this dinosauromorpha, so my dinosaur question does relate to chickens in someway. After all, I’m sorry to ruin the fun and never ending debate about the chicken and the egg. If you ever want to find an answer to an unanswered question like this look at it from a nerdy standpoint, not to be annoying but to get the correct answer.