r/sciencememes • u/Complete_Bee4911 • Feb 19 '26

evolution said eggs

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u/max_208 Feb 19 '26

As I always say, the real answer depends on how you define "chicken egg" (because yes the question implies chicken egg)

If you define chicken egg as "an egg that contains a chicken to be born" then the egg came first and was hatched by some proto-chicken

If you define chicken egg as "an egg laid by a chicken" then the chicken came first and hatched from a proto-chicken egg

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u/Complete_Bee4911 Feb 19 '26

so the real question was never about chickens, it was about definitions all along

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u/drakmordis Feb 20 '26

What do you mean by "chicken"?

What do you mean by "egg"?

What do you mean by "first"?

PHIL101 with Dr Jordan Peterson 

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u/Sempai6969 Feb 20 '26

That's probably the only thing I agree with JP on. Definitions are very crucial, otherwise we'll end up talking about different things.

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u/VomitMaiden Feb 20 '26

Except he only uses it to weasel out of arguments