Chicken and the Egg
Which came first? Chicken or the egg?
Quite the question isn't it?
This is one of the questions that has baffled the humankind for centuries and has generated so much controversy that it rivals the controversy generated by all the political scandals in the world. Even the ones here in Sri Lanka. Well, anyway..What is the thing that is so fascinating about this question?
Well, at its core, this is a question of the reason and the result. Reason and result serve as the basis of human knowledge,logic and analysis that it is so monumental that it could promote a seemingly silly question to a very "controversial" one.
As we know, the cause comes before the effect, such is the nature of the order of the universe. So what came first is the cause and what came later is the effect. So is chicken the cause of eggs or eggs the cause of chicken? The interesting thing is that both can be the cause and/or the result of each other. So we are stuck in a vicious cycle of logic and with seemingly no answer. Anyway, I will acknowledge the fact that no answer is completely satisfactory, mainly because if this was to be answered, we would loose one of the most beautiful riddles of all time.
Quite the question isn't it?
This is one of the questions that has baffled the humankind for centuries and has generated so much controversy that it rivals the controversy generated by all the political scandals in the world. Even the ones here in Sri Lanka. Well, anyway..What is the thing that is so fascinating about this question?
Well, at its core, this is a question of the reason and the result. Reason and result serve as the basis of human knowledge,logic and analysis that it is so monumental that it could promote a seemingly silly question to a very "controversial" one.
As we know, the cause comes before the effect, such is the nature of the order of the universe. So what came first is the cause and what came later is the effect. So is chicken the cause of eggs or eggs the cause of chicken? The interesting thing is that both can be the cause and/or the result of each other. So we are stuck in a vicious cycle of logic and with seemingly no answer. Anyway, I will acknowledge the fact that no answer is completely satisfactory, mainly because if this was to be answered, we would loose one of the most beautiful riddles of all time.
By the way, my answer is egg, because evolution. 😃 what laid it? a T-Rex 😛 just deal with it. 😉
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