Gravitas | Which came first: The egg or the chicken?

Which one came first? The egg or the chicken? Has the age-old mystery been solved? Molly Gambhir tells you.

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[deanosaur]

I'm 60 years old, an have eaten eggs on toast since I was a child! Obviously, toast came before eggs and chickens! 😉

[RamyaSanatani]

The answer may be tough for a 12 yrs old kid, but for adults it’s easy. We always know life forms first as egg, even in humans egg gets fertilised and then humans are born. Microbes mutate, first egg is formed and then, whole species take birth

[kiwiwala]

In the narrative the poor rooster is missing!

[pickle]

Here is the answer:
When you go to the market to buy eggs you don't ask, "Which is first, the chicken or the egg?" If you ask this you will never return home with your eggs. You just buy your eggs and come without first making sure which is first - the chicken or the egg.

Many people have debated it. The question of the chicken or the egg is very ancient. Which comes first? It is very difficult to find an answer. As soon as you say the egg comes first, difficulties begin, because the egg must have come from a chicken - so the chicken comes first. As soon as you say the chicken came first, again the problem arises because how will the chicken come without an egg?

It is a circle. The question is misleading. The question is misleading because the chicken and the egg are not two.

The chicken and the egg are two stages of the same thing. You raise a question by putting one ahead of the other, making them two. The chicken is a form of the egg - the completely manifested form. The egg is a form of the chicken - the unmanifested form - like seed and tree.

Which comes first? - don't waste time arguing. If you bring up the chicken you have brought up the egg. If you bring up the egg you have brought up the chicken. If one comes, the other comes along with it, wherever you begin from.

All philosophical quarrels are childish. Even the biggest philosophical battles have been fought over a problem which can be summed up in a child's question: "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" It is really around this small question that all the great battles between philosophers have taken place. But those who know will say the chicken and egg are not two. Those who raise this question are stupid, and those answering it are even more stupid.

What is an egg but a chicken in the making? And what is a chicken but an egg fulfilled, come to its fullness? Egg and chicken hide each other in themselves. The question of who precedes whom is meaningful if egg and chicken are two separate things. The truth is that they are the same. Or we can say that they are the two ways of looking at the same thing. Or they are two different phases, two states of the manifestation of the same thing.

Similarly, seed and tree are not separate. Neither are light and dark. Nor are birth and death They are two ways of looking at the same thing. Maybe, because we don't know how to see a thing rightly, we see it in fragments. For example, there is a big room inside a house and the house is locked.

Someone wants to have a look at the room and so he drills a hole through a wall. Now he peers into the room from side to side. At first a chair will come into view, then another chair, and so on and so forth. He cannot have a full view of the room all at once. And he can very well ask, "Which comes first and which afterward?" No arguments can settle this question. But if the person manages to enter the room he can see the whole room together, and then he will not ask what comes first.

[somaghosh]

Yes ma'am, this question has been around for ages.

[aaronh]

Honestly well done to everyone involved. It seems there is no topic that Molly cannot present with stunning perfection and absolute grace! Just a brilliant performance of professionalism! News is finally FUN for the first time!

[raybowhutan]

"Thought" came first, that's "manifestation" in the spiritual world.

[raymondtendau]

One day, after a break of almost twenty-five years, Shankaran Pillai met up with a bunch of his college friends. They all gathered in a restaurant to celebrate. They ordered and food and drinks came. As they were talking, naturally, the inevitable debate came up: which do you think comes first- the chicken or the egg? A huge debate began.
But as everyone was busy arguing, Shankaran Pillai was busy guzzling down his drink and eating whatever snack came his way. Then his friends asked, hey, are you not interested in such an important debate?Don't you want to know? Which do you think came first? the chicken or the egg?
Shankaran Pillai looked up and said, "whichever you ordered first will come first".
-Sadhguru
KARMA.

[MNillumination]

I swear, Molly tried asking this question to chatGPT

[GauravKmrSingh]

focus on your quality WION you're embarrassing us Indians.

[-newfie-]

You can see this woman fighting back laughter!

[FaithOverFearMinistry]

Your questions…
What came first, the chicken or the egg? If the chicken came first, how did that happen without an egg? Simple answer, and we’ve had the answer since the beginning of creation. Genesis 1 tells exactly how God created everything! As for chickens specifically…

Genesis 1:21-22
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

So God created the chickens along with every other creature, then told them to multiply. Once told to multiply, they made eggs of course to do so👍🏻

The Bible scriptures have the answers to many questions you may have! You just need to believe and have faith👆🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻Jesus saves✝️

[weeateverything]

God created everything! That's the obvious answer the entire world know! don't fool yourself with these kind of funny riddles.

[mssuskar]

Doesn't matter what came first when I'm hungry 😅 chicken or egg i can eat both 😋

[IDLExHANDS]

The Shrodinger paradox presents a similar question in many aspects.

[raymondramos]

Chicken of course. God created animals in pair for their pro creations.

[kevingeorge]

The answer to this question is very simple.

Where did the earth come from? Something just burst? Okay fine. So then where did that molecule come from? Same way where did chicken come from? And if egg came first, where did it come from? Nothing cant create anything and something should have created a initial cause and you could see that its God. The heavens, the earth, planets, sun, moon, star, kittens, chickens, oceans, seas, sky, birds, flowers etc. You just cannot have it so precise and beautiful without a cause.

[Induraj]

1. How did life enter into the egg?
2. Who laid the egg with life?

[elvancor]

Turns out, the chicken ovary protein thing is a 14 year-old massive misinterpretation.
A study found that _among chickens, _ this protein is produced in the ovaries of the females. But this is true for all birds and dinosaurs as well. The protein in question long predates chickens, and the study never was about the chicken-egg-question to begin with.

[deanosaur]

This can be asked of humans too! Which came first, the baby or the adult? 😉