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To: decimon

“I think the egg came first. A chicken is not defined by the type of egg it lays. (A horse is a horse even if it gives birth to a mule.) But an egg is defined by the kind of creature it contains. (An egg that contains a robin is a ‘robin’ egg, no matter what laid it.) Therefore, if you believe in evolution, at some point a creature which was almost a chicken laid an egg that contained a chicken, and as an egg is defined by the kind of creature it contains, the egg came first.”

— Marilyn vos Savant in her book, Ask Marilyn

Of course, if you don’t think evolution is true, the question is essentially meaningless.


12 posted on 07/15/2010 8:29:52 AM PDT by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: Erasmus

Evolution aside, I think Marilyn laid an egg with that babble.


13 posted on 07/15/2010 9:12:05 AM PDT by decimon
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