--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., "Andrew Greene" <blaze_at_n...> wrote:
> But chickens predate humans, and wild chickens hide their eggs
pretty well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Leisemann [mailto:jkwleisemann_at_y...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:41 PM
> To: SkunkworksAMA_at_y...
> Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Scrapper wants a challenge, then
so
> be it.
>
>
>
> --- payne_brandon <payne_brandon_at_y...> 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. :)
From "The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy":
The Book: "....'Oh,' says God, 'I never thought of that!' And
promptly disappears into a puff of logic. 'That was easy!', says Man
and then, as an encore, goes on to prove Black is White and gets run
over atthe next Zebra crossing."
--Greg
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Received on Sun Mar 17 2002 - 18:05:44 CST