First The Chicken, Or The Egg?

Finally, the century old question or dilemma of whether the chicken or the egg came first had been cleared up a few years ago it would seem, according to 'The Times', one of the most prestigious London newspapers. It was published that to solve this riddle once and for all, they had united a genetic specialist, a philosopher, and a aviarist - fowl farmer, to dig deep into this long standing puzzle. The conclusion was that the egg first before chicken.

The matter is anything but trivial, identifying the fond debates especially amongst the wise and learned, on abstruse topics, that clarify little or nothing, but those who take part in the debate displays enormous ingenuity, patience and subtlety. The subject to establish what comes first has remained alive and popular, defying time, in all languages, and constantly quoted in day to day usage, as synonymous to question or doubt impossible to clear up. Such perception is not new; it's one of those little questions that drag on since time immemorial, and manage to remain of great interest to most. Like whether the glass is half full, or half empty?

Apparently, it started way back in the middle of the 5th century of our era, a Latin writer Marcrobio, a representative of those who strived hard to conserve the roots of ancient Romanism and all it signified, at that time threatened by Christians and salvages, wished to transmit through a book such a vision to the world by uniting philosophy and science of nature. The book told of banquets attended by like minded society gentlemen, although of varied characters, debating on diverse subjects.

One of the diners, tired of the filigree mentality of the Greeks, asked in an ironic tone and without dissimulating impertinence, what came first: the chicken or the egg? The nominated judicator, taking the matter seriously, made everyone see the graveness of the theme raised, and elaborated that in the beginning it was the egg because nature began rudimentarily, and only very slowly and gradually to begin perfecting itself. The egg then contained no form of an animal. With time it began to develop, very much like the many stages of the revolution of the human race.

Now things are not as simple as that. As all living beings come from a single semen, there must have existed someone who produced it. In that case, one should reasonably conclude with the preexistence of a chicken. So the judicatory spokesman must choose and, according to his option, demonstrated his intelligence and culture.

All is now clear. Or is it??

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