Monday, February 4, 2013
What came first the chicken or the egg?
This age-old question really has a simple answer. However, attempts to answer it and to get around implications of the simple answer are often quite convoluted.
According to the Creator of chickens, and the author of the record of their origins, chickens came first. It was on the fifth day of creation week that He created "every winged fowl after [their] kind" (Genesis 1:21) complete with the DNA to reproduce that kind. Then, He "blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply" (v. 22) using that DNA. For the chickens, this meant laying chicken eggs. Problem solved.
Evolutionists have a different story to tell, however. To them, chickens evolved from other kinds of birds, although which ones remains unclear. It wasn't flightless birds which gave rise to chickens, because they are thought to have descended from birds which could fly but lost that ability through mutation. Actually, the origin of all types of birds which live today are shrouded in mystery, leading bird expert, Alan Feduccia, to proclaim, “The origin of birds is still up in the air.”
It's fashionable today to claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs, although again, there is little agreement on which dinosaur lineage was ancestral to birds. The claim persists in spite of the fact that birds and dinosaurs differ markedly. Legs must become wings and scales must become feathers. Dinosaurs had solid bones, yet bird bones are hollow. Reptilian dinosaurs were likely cold blooded; birds are warm blooded with an extremely high metabolism. Dinosaurs had lungs similar to mammals, while the bird's breathing scheme is totally different. At least dinosaur eggs were similar to birds’ eggs internally. Externally, they had a soft, leathery shell quite different from bird's eggs.
What danger is there in saying the egg came first?
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