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View Poll Results: What Came First, the CHICKEN or the EGG?
The Chicken Came First! 15 30.00%
The Egg Came First! 20 40.00%
Enough of these Stupid Polls! 15 30.00%
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Seeing as chickens are descended from dinosaurs, it would have to be the egg.
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A circle has no end.
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Seeing as chickens are descended from dinosaurs, it would have to be the egg.
Agreed. The old Chicken or the Egg riddle does not take into account the scientific fact of the evolution of the species.
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A circle has no end.
However you are ignoring time's arrow.
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The arrow goes straight through the circle!!! :P
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I would say the chicken came first. But this new article says otherwise - CNN.com - Chicken and*egg*debate unscrambled - May 26, 2006
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