Chicken Came Before the Egg: "Scientific Proof"

(CBS)  British scientists claim to have solved one of the great mysteries of life, the universe and everything in it: The chicken came before the egg, they say, and they're not mincing words.

"It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first," Sheffield University's Dr Colin Freeman, according to a report in the Metro.

Researchers from Scotland and England used a supercomputer called HECToR to look in such detail at a chicken eggshell that they were able to determine the vital role of a protein used to kick-start the egg's formation.

That protein is only found, wait for it... inside a chicken.

Freeman, who worked on HECToR with counterparts at Edinburgh's Warwick University, said the protein had been identified earlier by scientists and was known to be linked to egg formation, "but by examining it closely we have been able to see how it controls the process," he added, describing it as a catalyst.

Professor John Harding, who also took part in the research, told Metro the discovery could have other applications.

"Understanding how chickens make shells is fascinating in itself, but can also give clues towards designing new materials." he said.

Which is good, because in spite of HECToR's hard work and the "scientific proof" it yielded, the study offered no explanation as to how the chicken got there in the first place.

If not from an egg, perhaps it just came from across the road.

[elderbigggs]

E-volution is still a fraud; it's nothing more than a religion.
Darwin Disproved it, 'Charles Darwin My life and letters' Volume 1, Page 210, for those in the hard to hear seats, ... E-volution Says that life stared at the lover levels and evolved to the upper higher levels.
Evolve is the key word here. This word means that some thing change from something in to some thing more advanced. At the Precambrian and the Cambrian Explosion the place where Charles did all of his research because ALL of life as we know it resides there. What he did NOT find there is life EVOLVED. What does this mean? There is no other place on this planet to find life that applies to E-volution. This layer of strata is the only place around the complete planet to look for the foundations of the Origins of life. There are no other Places.
After years of research Darwin Concluded AND NO OTHER RESEARCH TO DATE compares to his. IN 'Charles Darwin My life and letters' Volume 1, Page 210, Charles Darwin States, "Not one change of species into another is on record.... WE cannot prove that a single species has changed into another." This means that this was an interesting idea but not to fruition.
E-volution is still a fraud; it's nothing more than a religion.
Darwin Disproved it.

[tashaownz]

How'd the chicken get there in the first place?!

[martik1]

With this software you can see inside an egg where a chicken become a chicken!
http://martik-scorp.blogspot.com/2010/07/egg-to-chicken.html

[fxpw77]

The egg came from a velociraptor and evolve in chicken!

[briebriebrie]

Overthinking the size of an egg and the diameter of a chicken's ass it comes to mind that you cannot be chicken, to be a chicken. I think that roosters are the real chicken chicken...

[bajajohn1]

The chicken evolved. Now that was easy.

[P0ST1ING_AWAY]

by seriouslythough July 14, 2010 5:39 PM EDT
It sounds like you have taken Darwin's THEORY of evolution and interpreting it as fact! Then you go into all kinds of assumptions. As a matter of fact Darwin's theories are beeing slowly disproved in the last fifty years or so.
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It is fact.
The only individuals that do not consider it so are uneducated peons.

[seriouslythough]

Go tell the world, Einstein..you just proved Darwin's theories to be fact? Please share your research to us uneducated peons.I suggest you educate yourself because Darwin himself had very serious issues with many of his THEORIES!

[theveggiedude]

Darwins theory has gained far more credibility over the last 30 years because of DNA analysis. In fact, its not considered a 'theory' anymore. BTW, the term 'theory' does not mean the same thing in layman terms as it does in science.

[hal_apeno]

Dinosaurs laid eggs.
Chickens evolved from dinosaurs.
Ergo, eggs came before chickens.

[bill1049]

If you look back far enough between chickens and eggs, didn't chickens come from reptiles? During this time period before reptiles evolved into chickens, and reptiles came from eggs, the egg was obviously came first before the chicken.

[mandeus2000]

This hasn't been an actual problem at all. Probably one of the first "problems" evolution solved. What's worse is that this article is demonstrably wrong.
Yes the protein only comes from chickens in the modern day, but it also came from the chicken's closest ancestor, which probably only looked slightly different than a chicken. And if you trace that back, it came from an egg etc etc, until you've back tracked far enough to a completely different species. None of these species transformed into a chicken. One just happened to lay an egg that gave birth to a chicken that looked only slightly different that the creature before it.
We've known this,it's obvious. There was never some creature that just transformed into a chicken, and no chicken just popped into existence one day.

In short: Chickens require chicken eggs, chicken eggs do not require chickens

[mah1121]

You really missed the point

[seriouslythough]

It sounds like you have taken Darwin's THEORY of evolution and interpreting it as fact! Then you go into all kinds of assumptions. As a matter of fact Darwin's theories are beeing slowly disproved in the last fifty years or so.