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well, if you believe in creationism (with a literal interpretation of genesis), the chicken.
if you believe in evolution, it depends on your definition of a chicken egg. If you define it as an egg laid by a chicken, then the chicken obviously came first. If you define it as an egg containing a chicken embryo, then the egg came first because, at some point, a bird that was not quite what we would define as a chicken would have given birth to a bird with just enough of a mutation to be considered a chicken. of course, where you draw this line would be very fuzzy.
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imagine a lizard which laid a lizard egg. Millions of years later, its descendant was a chicken, which lays a chicken egg. But there was no moment when chicken-ness suddenly leapt into existence. Similarly, there was no first land animal, there was no first lung, and there was no first skeleton. The current scientific theory has all of these coming about bit by bit.
In short, if a species was created abruptly, then a chicken-and-egg question would make sense. But if that species evolved, then there was no first chicken, and there was no first egg.
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