Which comes first EGG or CHICKEN

The chicken or the egg

Contradictory answers from various WikiAnswers contributors:

The Chicken!

• Using literature, the chicken comes first.
• Using grammar, "the chicken" comes first in the sentence (They come before the words, "the egg.")
• In a dictionary, the word "chicken" comes before "egg."
• The answer is the chicken: God created all the animals and not all the eggs. It's easy because for those that believe in Him God made animals not eggs. The chicken because God wouldn't just put a egg on the earth and even if he did nothing would warm the egg for it to hatch.
• The chicken... it had to be. Creatures in the sea evolved and they didn't evolve into eggs now, did they?
• The chicken. It has to be around to lay the egg.
• In the seven days that God created the earth, it makes no mention of animals' eggs. Thus, the chicken came first.
• I say that the chicken came first because the chicken was made before the egg because God made all the animals first and birds and etc..... so the chicken came first before the egg, the eggs came when a male(rooster) and a female chicken repopulate with each other.
• The chicken came first because, if the chicken didn't come first, there would be no egg or care for it. So, God had to make the chicken first.
• If you are an evolutionist, you probably think that the chicken evolved from a dinosaur or something. But the chicken came first; if you think about it, how was the chicken alive before the egg...

The Egg!

• The egg, dinosaurs were laying them far before the chicken's existence.
• The answer is the egg! For an animal to change, its genetics would have to change also and this is impossible. Therefore the change would have to take place as an embryo or egg. So the first chicken was most likely spawned in prehistoric times as an embryo/egg. Concluding that the first living organism had to come from the form of an egg or embryo.
• The egg would have come first laid from another animal when it was hatched it was that animal but had to move its habitat so it had to adjust and became the chicken.
• Theoretically, the egg must come first. A chicken is conceived and born in an egg; therefore, without the egg the chicken could not have been either conceived or born, it may be that the egg was the product of two different species accidentally mating to conceive the egg that contained the first, "chicken" as we know it. the egg came first, think about it logically, instead of trying to question it, there is no other logical/practical conclusion.
• The egg came first. Two animals who really liked each other and were not the same breed, mated and the female laid an egg and it came out a chicken. They didn't know what to call it so they just named it chicken. Therefore the chicken is a crossbreed. I don't know what between though.
• The egg came first. Dinosaurs laid eggs for millions of years before chickens were present on Earth.
• The egg came first because other animals came before the chicken that had eggs of some kind. One kind are the fish in the seas; fish lay eggs. Another are snakes; snakes also lay eggs.
• A chicken could not have its genetic material altered during life, so the egg must have evolved and been first.
• If you take into account the doctrine of evolution, the egg's coming first becomes plausible on the cellular level under perfect circumstances (abundant food and resources). There will be an asexual reproduction once the environment becomes unfavorable. The species would then evolve, and a lot of animals have no parental instincts but through evolution some have started to look after their young.
• An asexual reproduction is reproduction in which there is no fusion of male and female sex cells gametes.
• The egg came first because the chicken descended from a dinosaur, and it laid an egg that was changed from Darwin's theory.
• The egg came first because a chicken comes from an egg. At whatever point you decide to call the chicken a true chicken, it must have come from an egg. Because the different species before it must have evolved to make a chicken, the egg came first. 

Neither!

• Isn't it both? Because the chicken would have to teach the chick how to do stuff and the egg to reproduce the chickens.
• The chickens most recent ancestor laid the egg. Think of it this way: along the slow and steady evolution from single celled organisms to full fledged modern chickens, at some point, if you could observe every animal in that evolutionary line, you would have to say, "well, this one's not a chicken, but the next one is." The line simply must be drawn somewhere. So whatever egg that the first chicken hatched from would have come first!
• There is no final answer but the most reasonable conclusion is that a certain breed of dinosaur laid an egg, then a period of extremely cold weather preserved the egg. Whilst that occurred the egg genetic form was rearranged into a creature similar to the chicken. At first the animal could have been very different from the chicken we know today but over time it changed into the chicken form we are so familiar with today.
• Neither the chicken, nor the egg came first. It was the rooster that came first.
• The egg and the chicken came at the same time. The chicken and the egg are just two different names for the same process or being. It's like water on its way to becoming ice is still water, and vice versa.
• Darwin's theory; the chicken egg came from a different species.
• There is no answer. Since the question is a paradox, there is no answer. If the chicken came first, it came from the egg. If the egg came first, then it came from a chicken, and so forth.
• Evolution suggests that both chickens and eggs evolved from creatures and "egg-things" you would not recognize to be part of the lineage. (Similar to how, in the very distant past, some molecule[s] that was [were] not what we would call "life" became "life".) That was the beginning.
• There is no correct answer that can be proven. It's all theory.