Answer to Chicken or Egg

In the interest of time, both the HS, and the YCMTSU Categories combined.

Hey folks,

In the interest of time, and because this is appropriate, I will combined the Health and Science and the You Can't Make This Stuff Up Categories in to one this week. Turn out that Scientist have answered the age old question of which came first. The Chicken or the egg? Wrong, but they answered it. {Smile}

According to Live Science - Which Came First? Eggs Before Chickens, Scientists Now Say Jeanna Bryner Senior Writer LiveScience.com jeanna Bryner senior Writer livescience.com – Fri Nov 14, 10:52 am ET

A rare fossilized dinosaur nest helps answer the conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg, two paleontologists say.

The small carnivorous dinosaur sat over her nest of eggs some 77 million years ago, along a sandy river beach. When water levels rose, Mom seems to have fled, leaving the unhatched offspring.

Researchers have now studied the fossil nest and at least five partial eggs. The nest is a mound of sand that extends about 1.6 feet (half a meter) across and weighs as much as a small person, or about 110 pounds (50 kg).

"Some characteristics of the nest are shared with birds, and our analysis can tell us how far back in time these features, such as brooding, nest building, and eggs with a pointed end, evolved - partial answers to the old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg," said researcher Francois Therrien, curator of dinosaur paleoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada.

The answer?

Well, it's still unclear whether chicken eggs or chickens came first (the intended question in the original riddle), said Darla Zelenitsky, a paleontologist of the University of Calgary in Alberta who was the first scientist to closely analyze the dinosaur nest.

But interpreted literally, the answer to the riddle is clear. Dinosaurs were forming bird-like nests and laying bird-like eggs long before birds (including chickens) evolved from dinosaurs.

"The egg came before the chicken," Zelenitsky said. "Chickens evolved well after the meat-eating dinosaurs that laid these eggs."

Can't have an egg without the Chicken. You CAN have the Chicken without the egg. It's just that some do not like the answer.

So the original riddle might now be rephrased: Which came first, the dinosaur or the egg? Meanwhile, the new nest provides some of the strongest evidence in North America in favor of the bird-like egg over the chicken.

Well, unless one of these Dinosaurs laid an egg, in which a Chicken hatched, the two are completely unrelated. Relax folks, I understand that this is an attempt at humor and word play. I just find it funny that these people wrap themselves up so much attempting to answer the simplest question.

You see, they do not like the real answer. They do not like it so much that they are attempting to PRODUCE another to replace it with. I just find it humorous. Just like those folks that do not believe, spend their entire lives fighting against something they do not believe in. The answer? God.
Peter

Sources:
Live Science - Which Came First? Eggs Before Chickens, Scientists Now Say