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2006-01-06, 1:45 PM #41

Darth_Alran

About to lose his freedom

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[http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/darth_alran/egg.jpg]

dont care as long as i can eat it

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2006-01-06, 4:00 PM #42

Axis

Of Evil!!

Posts: 3,164

Originally posted by Martyn:

The first egg was laid by something that wasn't QUITE a chicken: ergo eggs came first.

Yes, but then the egg wouldn't have been a chicken egg. It would have been a something-that-wasn't-QUITE-a-chicken egg. And from the something-that-wasn't-QUITE-a-chicken-egg came a chicken.

That is, if you don't believe God just spoke and the chicken spawned randomly on the world.

/spawn chicken

2006-01-06, 6:56 PM #43

Wolfy

I TYPE LOUD

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You have to first bring up the console, then type npc_spawn chicken

the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot - LC Tusken

2006-01-06, 11:47 PM #44

ECHOMAN

"Has it won yet?"

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2006-01-07, 6:05 AM #45

Jep

Jep Bartholomew Francisqué de Minguo El Inigo Montoya Padré the Third

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Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless

2006-01-07, 3:11 PM #46

Mort-Hog

If moral relativism is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Posts: 4,192

Originally posted by Axis:

We ought really to redefine the question..

Imagine the evolutionary step just before we arrive at 'chicken'. We'll call this creature a 'hicken'.
Imagine the evolutionary step just before we arrive at 'egg'. We'll call this object a 'hegg'.

The question now becomes - did the hicken lay a hegg? Or more precisely, did the hicken evolve into a chicken before or after the hegg evolved into an egg?

It would be my understanding that the evolutionary progress of the 'egg' line would occur a lot sooner than that of the 'chicken' line, as the development of a hardened shell to protect chicklets (or hicklets) would be of a more immediate importance to survival. So what we now consider to be an 'egg' would have evolved a lot sooner than even the evolution of the hicken, so the hicken would lay an egg, from which a chicken would emerge.

So, answer: egg.

[Edit: Oh, yeah, this is all 'assuming' evolution is true yadayada]

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. " - Bertrand Russell
The Triumph of Stupidity in Mortals and Others 1931-1935