--- payne_brandon <payne_brandon_at_yahoo.ca> wrote:
> But that creature has to produce the egg in the
> first place. Besides,
> isn't that really a rhetorical question?
>
> -Brandon Payne
Rather rhetorical, yes, but the comment about the
creature having to produce the egg isn't the issue,
since it's not a chicken yet.
Here's another one:
There is no chicken until someone sees it and calls it
a chicken. Until then, it's Alloysius, or Fritz, or
Thumberjacqueline, who knows? Until you call it a
chicken, it's not a chicken, "chicken" being an
abstract term used to describe the organism.
Similarly, there is no egg until it is seen and called
an egg. Same reason.
Thus, the egg came first - but the CHICKEN egg came
second. The egg would have been seen first, in the
form of eggs laid by other organisms. However, the
chicken came before the chicken egg since, without the
chicken, there is no way to tell that it is a chicken
egg.
I am now off to take my migraine medication so I'm
ready for the mod-stick to slam into my cranium. :)
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Received on Thu Mar 14 2002 - 09:43:09 CST