S57 said there are no paradoxes, just knowns and unknowns.
I believe that logic in the larger sense (not the definitional/numerical types) runs out which would place it in the unknown category with multiple friggin Mobius Strips looping like many a conversation here using circular reasoning, however God don’t play repeats eternal, God may be cutting the fat (so-to-speak), just so happens that fats often gives flavor, hence reality is being stripped of its value. Is anybody with me still or ever?
Now James tells moi that he can use precise language to find that logic gone wild solution. Lol. 1,2,3. Lol.
I still think the egg came first but as you can see not everyone automatically thinks so
Simple questions do not always have simple answers and this one is one such example
What people don’t think about is that every type of animal has breeds, subspecies, or races within that type, just like homosapians. And those breeds did not come from the same “prechicken” source. Before they became similar enough to be categorized as the same animal, the fowl-like creatures were more distinct and clearly not the same animal. Through all of the trials and troubles associated with life and environment, entire pre-chicken creatures die out, leaving similar looking animals that are not related yet are functionally the same.
The reason it works that way is that environmental pressures tend to tailor life toward the most successful for concurrent environment. Very different creatures under the same pressures and mutating forces gradually mutate and evolve toward being almost the same creature, the one most stable form for that environment.
The fact that there are many stable forms for any one given environment and millions of creature types to be pressured into a better fit, yields a variety of stable creature types that are very different from each other and also very different from their origins. An era of entirely new creature groupings gets formed. And many within each group stem from a different origin. The “chicken” got created from a variety of unrelated non-chickens that through their pressured mutating gained the ability to cross breed into an even more uniform grouping. And when the environment shifts very much, it all happens again.
The bottom line is that the thing that you now call “chicken” is the result of a cross breeding of earlier forms of dissimilar chickens that stemmed from cross breeding and mutating of almost-chickens which stemmed from the mutating and cross breeding of a variety of non-chicken creatures.
Within all of that maze of confusion spread over millions of years, the exact moment DNA molecules got altered varies from pre-chicken type to pre-chicken type. Some changes occurred after the prechicken was born. Some occurred during inception. Some occurred within the egg. Some occurred within the sperm. And through the pressures of time, those similar to what we now categorize as “chicken” survived and their pre-chicken ancestors died out after perhaps a very short existence, leaving no trace.
So the real answer is that neither egg nor chicken of what you now call “chicken” gave initial rise to the other. It is like asking which ingredient of the cake came first, the yeast, flour, sugar, egg, … which? Or perhaps “Who was the first Jew?” The question itself is inadequate.
All of evolution is a transition. So asking such a simple question is not going to provide a simple answer. There is no one absolute point in
geological time that can be referenced to give an answer. Evolutionary biologists cannot agree on taxonomic classification of species and
subspecies for this very reason. But one thing which can be stated with absolute certainty is that abiogenesis began somewhere between
three and half to four billion years ago with single cell non self replicating bacteria. So this was the very earliest ancestor of chicken and
egg [ and all other life ] despite being neither chicken or egg as such