{"id":43,"date":"2006-01-24T19:32:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T18:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/?p=43"},"modified":"2006-01-30T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T17:31:58","slug":"the-egg-the-chicken-and-the-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"The egg, the chicken, and the evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this great piece in a comment in Scott Adam&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\">Dilbert Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What came first? The chicken or the egg? Answer: The EGG! Because you must first define specifically what a chicken is. Then follow it&#8217;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&#8217;s offspring is a chicken and came from an egg not laid (by exact definition) from a chicken. That&#8217;s evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2006\/01\/and_then_he_vot.html#comment-13105974\">written down there<\/a> by &#8220;cman_yall&#8221;, and unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t trace the origin of this quote any further, so his source description has to do: &#8220;Quote from some guy&#8230; requoted by BBC maybe&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this great piece in a comment in Scott Adam&#8217;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&#8217;s family tree backwards, say to a bird that could fly gracefully. At some exact point, a bird in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}