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4XX4 previously said:
On a serious note. The age old question.
Doc,
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
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Clearly the egg.
Even the first avians (Archaeopteryx sp.) only date back to about 150 million years ago. Chickens, of course are much more recent.
Eggs predate terrestrial life (living on land) and probably in some form date back as far as animal life, which is about 430 million years.
As to the seemingly philosophic nature of the "chicken vs. egg" question, I refer to Wittgenstein and call this one a solved problem too. One of the numerous principles that this philosopher covered in his body of work included the idea that perfectly good english sentences could be created that have no underlying meaning or truth value because of the nature of the terms involved. These types of sentences can often be confused with philosophic puzzles because they are seemingly simple, yet defy an initial analysis much the same as deeper puzzles do. Unfortunately, the can be recognized at once as being primarily games of words and not puzzles of great intellectual weight because of their inherent triviality (thats *my* call - Wittgenstein probably wouldn't have been so crass.)
My favorite example, and one which borders on the philosophic:
"This sentence is false."
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