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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Possessing the gate of the enemy after trial
64-0322 §19
Now, but when Jesus, the Son of God, virgin born, shed his blood, the life that was in that blood was God, Himself. The Bible said, "We are saved by the life, the blood of God"---not the blood of a Jew; not the blood of a Gentile---but the life of God. God created this blood cell. Virgin born---she never knew no man. Neither did she ... neither did the egg come from her. I know many of you people won't believe the egg did... The egg can't be there without a sensation. What would God do then, see? He created both eg...
At Kadesh-Barnea
56-0527 §20
But just recently (I believe) in the Reader's Digest or somewhere, I was reading an article of where they taken a little wren and put it in a cage, with nothing to build a nest by. And she had to lay her eggs on the cage floor. And they hatched out, the little wrens, and they taken them little wrens and put them in a cage without anything to build a nest. When they hatched them out to fifteen generations ... fifteen different generations to see if it would change the nature. Then, that would take fifteen years, bec...
There is only One Way provided by God for anything
63-0731 §13
For instance, today, coming up, I noticed in southern Indiana, and all up through Indiana and along, there were what we said hybrid corn. And what a fine big ear that corn is. But it isn't any good. It looks better, but it isn't better. It's absolutely no good at all. And we find out that by hybreeding chickens, we find that... Did you ever try to eat fried chicken in these days? Why, you can't hardly do it. It smells and tastes just like ... I mean it tastes like a chicken smells. So what is it? There's eight hund...
The Queen of the South
58-0613 §34
Farmer... I don't mean this for a joke, no place for a joke, but I want to make a point. A farmer set a hen one time. They didn't have enough eggs to set her. How many knows what a setting of eggs is? Fifteen. All right. So, he only had fourteen; he went over and got a goose egg ... or, a duck egg, put it under the old hen. When she hatched all these fellows out, they all looked all right but this duck. He was a funny looking fellow. And she'd get out in the barnyard, you know, catching grasshoppers and carrying on...
Jehovah-Jireh, part 3
64-0404 §28
...re saved by blood; and without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Notice, Jesus was not Jew, Jesus was not Gentile, Jesus was God. He wasn't... He couldn't be Jew or Gentile. Look, the male sex produces the hemoglobin, which is the blood cell. The germ is in the blood cell. Now, you people here, a lot of you... I was riding around the other day watching your farmers, and you have chickens. Now, a hen can lay an egg. An old mother bird can lay an egg; but if she hasn't been with that mate, it'll never hatc...