Okay, so I have been getting some positive feedback from the “Questions to Ask an Atheist” series.  Keep them coming!  And if you have any parts of apologetics that you would like me to cover (such as Ontological, Cosmological, Teleological, or Moral arguments for God’s existence) then I would love to.

Before I begin I want to define what a chicken is.  A chicken (Gallus Gallus) is in the order of Galliformes, which is in the Phasianidae family.  They are omnivores who usually congregate within a flock in their natural habitat (which is just about everywhere).  They lay eggs in order to breed, and they take care of their eggs while in incubation.  Recently, artificial incubation has been able to take the chicken out of the equation.  Egg farmers now know that if one were to replicate a certain environment that the eggs will hatch within 21 days.  The eggs are kept at 95.5° Fahrenheit and in 55% relative humidity.  The eggs must turn, though, because if the eggs are not turned the embryos will stick to the side of the egg wall and become deformed.  Actually, when thinking about it, the breeding process of any bird, much less the chicken, is almost a miracle.  How did the first chicken know how to do this?  Did the very first chicken (we will call her Mama Chicken) learn from her mother how to do such (we will call Mama Chicken’s mother “Almost-a-chicken”)?  What was the difference between Almost-a-chicken and Mama Chicken that brought the chicken species to what they are now?  Did she still have reptile scales or something?  What happened while Mama Chicken was incubating in her very own egg to turn her into a chicken?  So my question for this week is this….

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

From an evolutionary standpoint it is impossible to say “the chicken” because species do not transform into their state during a lifetime (No one can ever be born a chimp and turn into a human before they die), but also something that is not a chicken cannot reproduce a chicken as their offspring.  So the question is, how did we get the modern chicken?  Was there a magical egg, or a magical animal that created the first chicken?  Or was there a Being who created the chicken?