The most interesting thing to me is that the evidence seems to support that there are fewer life forms than there was in the distant past. If 1/2 the species on earth die out every 1000 years or so think of how many there must have been 10,000,000 years ago.
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Anders Hultman wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Bob W wrote:
If you accept the evolution theory, the answer would actually be that the egg came first. It was laid by an animal that was nearly, but not quite, a hen.
I don't think you can appeal to evolution here. Evolution tells us that chickenhood is not a fixed state, not a destination or a Platonic ideal, but part of a seamless continuum, identified retrospectively.
But following that continuum, you will eventually reach a point where the
animal before you is so unlike modern dat chickens that you can't really
call it a chicken, right? But rather a "pre-chicken" or some such. And
that animal lay The Egg. A slightly mutated egg that the first chicken
hatched from.
Chickenhood is a realm of infinite possibilities, never-ending branches exploring the boundaries of identity, pecking at the futility of definitions plucked from our cooped minds.
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