What do you think came first? The chicken or the egg?

[CoopCrazy]

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I don't recall appointing you my proxy in the creation/evolution debate...??? Also, I can't accept that eggs came first so please don't include me in your "both sides" statement. Thank you.

I vote: CHICKEN

Best wishes,
Ed

Wow Intheswamp always amazed at the kindness of others

.. You're a real winner

 

[OutInTheStiks]

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Agreed.

 

[SarahFair]

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Who kept the incubator temp and humidity in check?

This is a pretty awesome clip if you have a min to watch

 

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Here is something interesting. Some scientist are trying to reverse engineer a dinosaur from a chicken.

Washington, March 6 : In an awe-inspiring new experiment, paleontologists are attempting "reverse evolution", in which they would try to recreate a dinosaur, by starting with a chicken embryo and working backward to engineer a "chickenosaurus" or "dinochicken".
According to a report in Discovery News, such "reverse evolution" has been successfully performed in mice and flies, but those studies focused on re-introducing just a few bygone traits.

The dinochicken project instead has the goal of bringing back multiple dinosaur characteristics, such as a tail, teeth and forearms, by changing the levels of regulatory proteins that have evolved to suppress these characteristics in birds.

"Birds are dinosaurs, so technically we're making a dinosaur out of a dinosaur," said project leader Jack Horner, a professor of paleontology at Montana State University and curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies.

"The only reason we're using chickens, instead of some other bird, is that the chicken genome has been mapped, and chickens have already been exhaustively studied," added Horner.

Although the plan seems more like a page out of the fictional "Jurassic Park," Horner assured it is real and is already underway.
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http://www.littleabout.com/news/1481,how-to-make-a-chicken-into-a-dinosaur.html

 

[CoopCrazy]

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Who kept the incubator temp and humidity in check?

This is a pretty awesome clip if you have a min to watch

Well seeing as they didnt have incubators .. i would assume the dino mom kept them warm.. and whos to say that the first chickens sat on their eggs.. Maybe they did like crocodiles/alligators and made a mound that would keep them warm and have the correct humidity..

Truthfully no one knows so its all Theory.. i like my theory you like yours .. Its all good..

 

[deb1]

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Who kept the incubator temp and humidity in check?

This is a pretty awesome clip if you have a min to watch

A dinosaur wouldn't suddenly hatch a chicken. What would happen is that tiny adaptations would slowly occur over a long period of time.

 

[deb1]

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scientific evidence backs it up

What evidence?? its just a Theory.nothing has been proven,they are still looking for the missin link

Biologist here, have to take issue with this.
"Just a theory" is a phrase based on an incorrect definition.
Theory, in the scientific sense, does not mean what most people intend it to mean in casual usage. A theory is a functional model used to explain natural phenomena, based on massive amounts of empirical evidence. The proper word for what you're describing is "hypothesis", which is completely different from theory.
Gravity, for example, is a theory. "Theory" is the most certainty you will get out of a legitimate scientist, but it does *not* mean "just some idea".
As far as the missing links thing, evolution is an ever-changing, continuous process. You don't find "missing links" because there aren't any. Evolution occurs on an incredibly long timeline, and the changes that occur between one generation and the next are tiny. It is the accumulated and gradual changes over time that leads to speciation.

/Not being mean, just adding some facts

So, a theory is the whys behind a law? Is that right?

 

[CoopCrazy]

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Who kept the incubator temp and humidity in check?

This is a pretty awesome clip if you have a min to watch

A dinosaur wouldn't suddenly hatch a chicken. What would happen is that tiny adaptations would slowly occur over a long period of time.

Thats basiccaly what i am saying.. It would have to be something between a dino and a chicken, the egg would still have to come first even though it came out of (dinchik) because the chick that hatched from the egg would be the first real chicken..

 

[deb1]

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A dinosaur wouldn't suddenly hatch a chicken. What would happen is that tiny adaptations would slowly occur over a long period of time.

Thats basiccaly what i am saying.. It would have to be something between a dino and a chicken, the egg would still have to come first even though it came out of (dinchik) because the chick that hatched from the egg would be the first real chicken..

I know. I was responding more to SarahFair.

Not that I am picking on you, Sarah.

 

[SarahFair]

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A dinosaur wouldn't suddenly hatch a chicken. What would happen is that tiny adaptations would slowly occur over a long period of time.

Thats basiccaly what i am saying.. It would have to be something between a dino and a chicken, the egg would still have to come first even though it came out of (dinchik) because the chick that hatched from the egg would be the first real chicken..

I mean I didnt think that a trex laid a chicken egg!

But its true... Something right before the chicken would have had to have laid the egg the produced the chicken we know today..

Thats it.. Just to make my chickens THAT much cooler Im calling them my modern day dinosaurs