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Nov. 3, 2004 Chicken and Egg: Animal reproduction takes place via Viviparous, Oviparous or Ovoviviparous methods. Viviparous refers to embryo development internal to the parent body, excluding the laying of an egg. Oviparous means the laying of an egg where the embryo develops entirely or virtually entirely inside the egg and not in the parent body. Ovoviviparous is the means of reproduction via egg development and hatching inside the parent body. The givens concerning origin of egg and animal are the following: An egg can only come from an egg-producing animal; thus, there must first be an animal allowing the existence of eggs at all. An animal, on the other hand, can come from either another animal or from an egg produced by an animal. Based on this, we have now arrived at a logically exhaustive premise. In short: without an animal their can be no egg, but without an egg their can be an animal. Thus, the issue concerning the primary origin a propos egg and animal is resolved and we must logically conclude that animal comes before egg. Turning our focus now to the chicken and egg question, first of all it is not only an unnecessary question, but also an irrational question. Evolution of species essentially takes place through mutations being either fit or unfit in relation to their environmental condition. The two possible origins of the chicken are: a chicken born from a non-chicken species through the viviparous method (this mutated form of the non-chicken species is egg laying), and a chicken hatched from an egg produced by a non-chicken species, where the chicken is again a mutated form (egg laying) of its non-chicken predecessor. So the real question should rather be: by which method did the chicken ancestor give birth to the chicken. The only two possible origins are those mentioned above. Simply put, the chicken ancestor was before the chicken; and the real matter of importance is that the ANIMAL came BEFORE the EGG. Does the tree fall when no one observes? The answer is no: Whenever an event is said to have occurred it is said because someone observed it or someone is aware of the actuality of the event. How can one say that something happened when no one observed it and nothing recorded it? We only speak of events in terms of the events having been recorded by some sort of observation. Their can be no event without an observing subject. Thus, nothing happens while none is observing – only that which is observed or that of which we are aware of is really happening. Without the conscious human being the world would not have existed – existence is only existent because the mind perceives. Without the mind, who or what would have known existence? It is really only the mind that senses this something it likes to call existence… ------------ About the author Werner Reyneke: I am a 23 year old passionate writer/poet in my spare time and a computer programmer by proffession. Visit my website to see my first published book. I live in South Africa and have been published in a local newspaper (some poems in Haiku form) for the first time in February 2000. I have also been selected for publication in a VoicesNet Anthology (visit www.Voicesnet.org) and a Poetry.com (ILP Publishers) anthology called "Eternal Portraits"). Visit my website at: http://myweb.absa.co.za/wreyneke/Mybook.htm Email: wreyneke@absamail.co.za Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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