The egg, the chicken, and the evolution
I found this great piece in a comment in Scott Adam’s Dilbert Blog
What came first? The chicken or the egg? Answer: The EGG! Because you must first define specifically what a chicken is. Then follow it’s family tree backwards, say to a bird that could fly gracefully. At some exact point, a bird in the ancestry will fail your definition of a chicken. It’s offspring is a chicken and came from an egg not laid (by exact definition) from a chicken. That’s evolution.
It was written down there by “cman_yall”, and unfortunately I couldn’t trace the origin of this quote any further, so his source description has to do: “Quote from some guy… requoted by BBC maybe…”
January 31st, 2006 10:42
The egg comes first: breakfast.
The chicken comes later: lunch.