Yes, ladiinred, it's better to go for more creative.... By the way, here you go Hunk in Grave, Which came first? The chicken or the egg? If you take the question literally the answer is simple. It was the egg. Why? Basically because the question never states that the egg is a chicken egg and because of this we can say the egg came first before the chicken courtesy of the countless dinosaur eggs laid before the time of the chicken. Of course this reasoning is being pedantic since the question assumes that everyone will read the question to mean the chicken egg. If this is the case then the question is impossible to answre unless a definition is cleared up. The question is not impossible to answer because nobody was around at the time of the first chicken (or egg) but because nobody has irrefutably defined what a chicken egg is. Is a chicken egg an egg that a chicken lays, or a egg that contains a chicken? If it is the former then the chicken cam first because you need the chicken to lay the chicken egg. If it is the latter then the egg came first because it contained the very first chicken as we know it. AN