Chicken or Egg

[Garnabby]

In practice, it is impossible to pinpoint the moment when this happened. But in theory, at some point two junglefowl bred and their offspring was genetically different enough from the species of its parents to be classified as a chicken. This chicken would have developed within a junglefowl egg and only produced the very first chicken’s egg on reaching maturity. Looked at this way, the chicken came first.

https://www.newscientist.com/questio...t-chicken-egg/

Looks like the chicken mutation (in an egg) isn't by definition a chicken egg, a viable copy or affirmation of the mutation.

Perhaps Mr. Finkle can help to sort it out. Ha.

Sort of like asking that AP's came before, or after, gambling.

[DGenBen]

So if the Block Universe Theory, aka Eternalism is correct (which actually seems unlikely although still possible) then the question of whether this site makes people retarded or if retards flock here would have no meaning, because if all moments past present & future exist at the same time then essentially there is no real cause & effect.

Retards would always be retards regardless of how they got that way or where they hang out. Even if they were not retards but then this site made them retards, in the block universe sense with all points of time past present & future being equally valid they would be eternal retards hence why the Block Universe Theory is also known as Eternalism.

I read about Block Theory about 30 years ago. Glad to see it's still around. Correct me on this if I remember it wrong, but basically you can use the roller coaster example as a blueprint. Consciousness is like riding on a roller coaster car with the track existing past/present/future but your consciousness only takes in what is in front of it as you ride the coaster.

I did not know it was given the nickname Eternalism. The youngsters with their new-fangled jargon.

Exactly. Roller coaster is a perfect analogy for it.

[Garnabby]

It has been suggested that the actions of a protein found in modern chicken eggs may make the answer different. In the uterus, chickens produce ovocleidin-17 (OC-17), which causes the formation of the thickened calcium carbonate shell around their eggs. Because OC-17 is expressed by the hen and not the egg, the bird in which the protein first arose, though having hatched from a non-reinforced egg, would then have laid the first egg having such a reinforced shell: the chicken would have preceded this first 'modern' chicken egg. However, the presence of OC-17 or a homolog in other species, such as turkeys and finches suggests that such eggshell-reinforcing proteins are common to all birds, and thus long predate the first chickens.

On 24 July 2024, two men began a chicken-or-egg debate at a party with alcohol in Indonesia. One man became so emotionally enraged he left and returned with a knife, stabbing the other 15 times and killing him. It is uncertain what side of the argument – chicken or egg – the killer took.

[theywontpayontuesday]

If DD would just ban MD, half the problems go away.

[Garnabby]

AI Overview

A mutation refers to a permanent alteration in the DNA sequence of a chicken's genes, which can occur at any point in its life, including in adulthood. These genetic changes can result in noticeable changes to the chicken's physical traits or functions, such as the scaleless trait, the rose-comb mutation, a frizzle-feathered appearance, or even green-colored shanks. Mutations can also lead to diseases or altered behavior, like the "cpp" mutation resulting in a cleft primary palate.

I don't know, but this whole chicken and the egg thing might not be so easy after all. Ha.

[jdaewoo]

If DD would just ban MD, half the problems go away.

He wouldn't ban someone bashing gays for anything in the world.