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Chicken vs Egg (mander.xyz)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've always interpreted it as which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?

But I'd just like to point out not all religions have that view of creationism vs evolution, and even within Christianity it's really only your super conservative, and very loud, fundamentalists. Catholicism doesn't have an official stance on evolution, iirc, the Episcopal church in the USA is fully supportive of evolution, as are most mainline Christians. Not to detract from your point or anything, I just don't like seeing all religious people, or all Christians, lumped together with some of the worst examples of religiosity that the US has to offer.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Religion is usually bad, so I don't have an issue lumping them all together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Jesus is the Ted McGinley of family gatherings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've always interpreted it as which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?

I agree. And this boils down to how you define 'chicken egg'. If the definition is "egg laid by a chicken", then the chicken had to have come first. If it's "egg that hatches a chick" (which will grow into a chicken), then the egg must have come first. But this ignores the pretty huge problem of picking a precise point on the evolutionary timeline where a non-chicken gave birth to a chicken. There isn't going to be such a clearly-defined point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but it's at least an interesting pointless unsolvable conundrum, whereas the other interpretations aren't even interesting. Lol.