cm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agoJust so there's no confusionlemmy.mlimagemessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1712arrow-down119
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minus-squareJojoWakaki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·16 hours agoOh wow, this is much simpler explanation than the obtuse one I use: “1st chicken ever definitely came from an egg but the creature that laid that egg wasn’t a chicken.”
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 hours agoThat depends on semantics. Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken? The answer to that question changes the answer to the original question
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoWho introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 hours agoI get that that’s the premise of the joke. But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg. The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI’ve just assumed the dilemma was older than Darwin.
Oh wow, this is much simpler explanation than the obtuse one I use: “1st chicken ever definitely came from an egg but the creature that laid that egg wasn’t a chicken.”
That depends on semantics.
Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken?
The answer to that question changes the answer to the original question
Who introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
I get that that’s the premise of the joke.
But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg.
The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”
I’ve just assumed the dilemma was older than Darwin.