Yahoo! News today picks up a story called Philosopher, scientist, farmer crack chicken-egg question. According to University of Nottingham Professor John Brookfield, the answer of the “what came first: the chicken or the egg?” question lies in simple evolutionary theory. At some point there was an animal that was just one mutation from being what we now call a chicken. This animal laid an egg. In that egg was the first generation of the first chicken, therefor the egg came first.
Of course, as my dad, appropriately amused, retorts, from a creation science/intelligent design point of view, the chicken came first. Genesis speaks of God creating animals, not eggs.
But that’s not so bad, is it? Now we don’t have to worry about chickens or eggs, just about religion and science. Science says it was an egg, religion says it was a chicken. Choose your outlook and you have your answer.