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"Wade T.Smith" wrote:
> On 05/12/00 06:19, Chuck Palson said this-
>
> >How could the egg appear without sexual
> >reproduction preceding it?
>
> Hmmm. Didn't say that. Of course sexual reproduction came previously-
> that is what produces the egg.
>
> But the egg _has_ to come before the chicken, because the egg came from a
> pair of proto-chickens,
It's been a long time since I have seen a proto-chicken. Would you venture a
description of them to job my memory?
> and is the mutation that produced the first
> chicken, who grew from it.
>
> There _is_ a definitive answer to which came first, the chicken or the
> egg, in biological terms.
>
> As for whether, in other terms and places, language, society, culture,
> and behavior line up as nicely, well, that is the question.
Answer: not very well in times of rapid change - which has been in western
civ since at least the last 500 years.
>
>
> - Wade
>
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