John Hattaway

How can the chicken come before the egg, or, inversely, how can the egg come before the chicken? Both items are integral to the other. There is no one before the other. No chicken and then egg or egg and then chicken. What this is called is a conundrum. The question is designed to make someone think.

There is an answer to this question and it’s not flippant. Specifically, the egg and the chicken have always existed together. Just like you cannot get a chicken without an egg you cannot get an egg without a chicken. One requires the other to exist, which in turn requires the other to exist. The chicken and the egg have always existed together.

Basic science points out that you cannot plant an apple tree in an orange orchard and expect the apple tree to produce oranges. The tree cannot, and will not, produce fruit opposite or contrary to its nature. Nature of an object is as important as the substance of the object and the substance of an apple tree is the production of apples; whereas the nature of the chicken is the production of the egg and the nature of the egg is the creation of the chicken. Both living in harmony.

As an extension of this argument it is, then, possible to postulate that a single organism cannot produce millions of individually distinct organisms outside of its nature. One single amoeba will not randomly produce a secondary organism that can survive. Nature has shown that randomly produced organisms are not capable of reproducing and when they are, they reproduce to the original organism and not toward the new organism.

What this means is that man has existed as man and not as ape. An ape cannot produce a man and a man cannot produce an ape, a monkey, a chimpanzee, or any of thousands of other creatures that are genetically related. This does not mean that there are not genetic similarities between man and ape, or man and mice, or man and marsupial, or man and woman; it does mean that man has always existed in his current state and that man cannot produce homo-superior because our genetic structure is design to reproduce an identical genetic structure. Mice are made the same way. Whales are made the same way. Monkeys and apes are made the same way as are sharks, marsupials, elephants, lizards, bugs, spiders, and every other creature under the sun.

Taking this a step forward we look at Darwin’s theory’s on the evolution of the species and discover that this is based on a secluded island with animals and birds that can be found on continents and islands some distance away. The first thing to note in this is that the animals on that island have adapted to their environment. The strong have survived and bred while the weak and unable have died away. Birds with stronger beaks have survived and have bred creating a sub-species of birds, with identical genetic markers, that have a dominantly stronger beak. At the same time iguanas have adapted a darker color for better heat collection and have learned to dive under water and swim. These iguanas have larger lung capacities, darker skin, and better protection than iguanas that live and prosper in more amicable environments. The species, or animals, are not knew; the adaptations that are found on the Galapagos Islands are unique.

Darwin’s theory of evolution is flawed and science built around evolution is also flawed. This does not mean, necessarily, that a purely creationist stance on creation is right either; but that a review of the sciences used is in order. Was there an Adam and an Eve? Yes. I am most certain that there was. Are we descended from that pair of proto-humans? Certainly. The questions shouldn’t be about the religious notion of creation but rather how man came to be and to what end he exists. This removes the question of creation from science, which cannot answer it, and places it solely in the hands of philosopher and religionist – who can hazard guesses but will also never be able to say for certain. In truth, the question about the chicken and the egg is moot and answered only in so far as repeating: As long as chicken has existed so has the egg, and as long as the egg has existed so has the chicken. The chicken and the egg have always coexisted together and no other answer is valid.

Science can be charged with discovering the tenets of creation and answering theories on how worlds are formed, life is derived, and separate species came into existence. This is what science exists to do. At the same time, science should not be relegated to an argument of philosophy to answer what they will never find evidence to support. Scientists cannot pass as law the relationship of man to ape or of any other combination – though the postulation of theory is not wrong. Science, however, can begin to work to discover how life can come into existence by answering questions on how atmospheres and worlds are created and how gravity really works.

In the end the chicken and the egg are literally one and the same. Without the one you cannot have the other.

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