then the chicken come out first, just as you said, because the almost perfect chicken cannot lay a perfect chicken's egg

it was the egg, and heres why:

its all based on the evolution of a species.

when a species develops a new trait, its passed down to the young, through dominant and recessive genes.
as the chicken evolved, the traits that made it a chicken were also passed down.
this means, at one point, there had to be a "pre-chicken" or the animal that layed the egg that had the first chicken in it.
so, the "pre-chicken" laid the egg, containing the first chicken, and therefore, the egg had to come first.

I believe the chicken came first because the egg would have been unfertile without another rooster.

@trademark: then that would be a prechicken's egg, not a chicken egg. :)

But the pre-chicken laid an egg with a slight genetic mutation which hatched into a chicken, so it was a chicken egg

but it wasn't laid by a chicken. it would be a mutated prechicken egg.

yes, and that mutated pre-chicken egg hatched into a chicken therefore it was a chicken egg

Well.. they both cam at the same time... at least in the restaurant I was eating at.

^^^ no matter how you put it, egg always cook faster than the chicken.



@CP:that would be called a premutated chicken egg since it was laid by one.

^^ That is behind the scene and so not relevant. What matters is the end result. Both were placed on the table at the same time.