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The chicken or the egg is a philosophical question regarding evolution and the birth of a chicken. The question has been cited by many scholars and has until 2010 been debated by scholars and the general public.

Origin of the Chicken

Gallus gallus domesticus or chicken, Originated in southeast Asia. Closely relating to a Gallus gallus or red junglefowl.

A red junglefowl

Darwinist View

The Darwin approach has been that chickens evolved from a common ancestor of the modern chicken. The process of a chicken egg becoming fertile is completed when a male sperm cell meets the female egg cell, creating a zygote, the first cell of a new chicken. The cell then divides many times into a mature chick ready to hatch. Chickens evolved from non-chickens by mutations of DNA and multiple mutations created a new zygote that was the modern chicken.^[1]

Creationist View

"On Day Five of Creation Week, God created 'every winged bird according to its kind'" (Genesis 1:21). This assumption presumes that the bird was first, therefore, the bird would lay the egg that would become the chicken.^[2]