What Came First the Chicken or the Egg?
1) Direct answer
The chicken came first.
2) Scriptural explanation
The Bible says God created “every winged fowl after his kind” and blessed them to “be fruitful, and multiply” (Genesis 1:20-22). He made living creatures “after their kind,” with “seed in itself” (Genesis 1:11-12, 24-25). Adam later named the animals already present (Genesis 2:19-20). So God spoke the fowl into being as complete creatures; then they multiplied by eggs.
3) Simple clarifying logic
Now notice: God made the first tree bearing fruit with seed already in it; He didn’t start with a seed only. In the same way, He made the first chicken as a mature creature; then came the egg. An egg requires a bird to lay it and brood it. Creation began with God’s spoken Word producing full-formed kinds, and reproduction followed.
4) Reinforcing statement
You see, life began by God’s creative act, not by a chain of accidents. First the chicken by the Word, then the egg by multiplication.
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It is the Rising of the Sun
65-0418M §55
My crude little story about the farmer putting the egg, the eagle egg, under the hen, see. That little eagle was, absolutely, he was a odd-looking little creature, when this farmer had did that thing that he did, to put this eagle egg under this old hen. And she hatched out a funny-looking chicken, and it was a odd little fellow. He didn't look like them. His feathers wasn't like the rest of them. He was an odd little guy, and all the rest of the chickens recognized him an odd fellow. And the hen went around... He...
What it takes to overcome all unbelief: Our faith
60-0729 §24
.... And we realize that the woman doesn't have the hemoglobin; it comes from the man. And the male produces the blood cell. Now, many of your people are farmers, and you have chickens, you have... Look at the yard and see birds, and the birds... A mother bird can build her nest and lay it full of eggs, and she can hover those eggs, and treat them just as good as she can treat them, and starve herself till she's so poor, she can hardly get off the nest, turning those eggs, reverently every few minutes, so that they'll...
The Easter Seal
65-0410 §37
As I spoke here not long ago (it sounded a little sacrilegious, but I hope it don't to you this morning), the farmer that set the hen and had an eagle egg. Many of you remember the story of the old eagle giving birth to this ... or, the hen giving birth over here to this chicken, or egg of the eagle under her chicken feathers. See, it is the atmosphere. The Presbyterian church, Methodist church, Baptist church---any of them can bring forth these eagles. Sure, it's the atmosphere that does it. As Dr. Bosworth used t...
One in a million
65-0424 §27
Now, when this great thing takes place, there is one egg waiting for one germ, out of that million. And there is no one can tell which germ that is, or which egg that is. If you'd watch the natural birth, it's more of a mystery than the virgin birth. Because in this sperm, there is one in there that's predestinated to live, and the rest of them will die. And it isn't the first one meets; it's the first one that comes together with the egg. Maybe the egg may raise up from the back of the sperm, or the middle of the...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §160
Maybe you say, "Well, the first one meets the rest of them dies." Well, how ... who determines it? "Well, the first one." Will it be the one in the front, the first egg in front and the first germ? No, no, it might be one egg plumb back in the back; in the middle of the sperm will come up (a germ) and go meet it. Shows that some intelligence determines whether it's going to be red headed, black headed; whether it's going to be little, big; male or female. See? You can't do nothing else about it. It won't work. You...