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Which came first
Researcher 38090 Started conversation Jun 18, 1999
The chicken or the egg. Surely the easiest question ever asked by a philosopher.
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Wig Posted Jun 21, 1999
Obvious. The Egg. Otherwise, what did dinosaurs come out of?
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Hedgehog Posted Jun 26, 1999
Nice one - a variation of "Why did the Dinosaur cross the road? Because chickens hadn't been invented yet!"
At least we've been spared "Miss Milly's Roasted Velocoraptor".
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Researcher 49186 Posted Jul 7, 1999
The question is not which came first, rather, "Is the egg a means for a chicken to make another chicken? Or is a chicken the means for an egg to make another egg".
cf. Richard Dawkins, Selfish Gene.
Which came first
Researcher 38090 Posted Jul 7, 1999
Demonstrating Dawkins as virus. That snipet you read attached itself to you with an instruction to reproduce it elsewhere.
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