According to National Geographic magazine, scientists have solved the old dispute over which came first - the chicken or the egg. Reptiles were laying eggs thousands of years before chickens appeared. The first chicken to hatch from an egg was laid by a bird that was not quite, evolutionarily speaking, a chicken. Final answer: The egg came first.

-- Chicken (OrThe@Egg.com), February 09, 2001

Answers

Wow...this seems sooooo simple, I gotta' wonder why it took them so long to figure it out.

-- Chick (Chick@Here.com), February 09, 2001.

MANY others are wondering too.

The last I heard Darwin's so-called missing link was still missing.

-- Colonel Sanders (finger licking@good.com), February 09, 2001.

suuuuuuuuuuuure

-- al-d (dogs@zianet.com), February 09, 2001.

So now the question is, which came first, the lizard or the egg?

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 09, 2001.

Actually, the chicken (or lizard) clearly came first, as eggs need to be incubated to hatch.

And, for whatever it's worth, science (through the use of modern recording technology) has definitely determined that if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, it does indeed make a sound.

And, the sound of one hand clapping is this:

-- E.H.Porter (just wondering@about.it), February 09, 2001.