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[–] 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

That was never a "serious" question in that sense. It's just a philosophical paradox.

The real answer is that you need to look at the ancestry tree. There wasn't a moment that a chicken popped up, it was a gradual evolution between an ancestor and until a point that we decided "yup, that's a chicken".

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    It's not so much a philosophical challenge as a grammatical question.

    Was the egg that the very first chicken hatched from a chicken egg, even though it was laid by a non-chicken?

    If I waved a scientifically-advanced biotech wand and impregnated a chicken with a small dinosaur, would the resultant egg be a chicken egg even though a dinosaur came out?

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