Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for July 11, 2024
July 10, 2024
July 12, 2024
Transcript:
hamhock: hey, ralston--"which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Ralston: An interesting conundrum, hamhock! first, let's assme the egg in question is a "chicken's egg", which we will define as an egg that is laid by a chicken...then, let's establish that the chicken's direct evolutionary ancestor was not, technically a "chicken." and since that ancestor laid the egg from which the first chicken" hatched, that egg was not, by definition, a "chicken's egg." ralston: Therefore it is not the egg in question, which means it was the chicken that came first! Woman: here's the egg...the chicken will be another minute, sweetheart... hamhock: don't you ever get tired of being wrong?
Mel-T-Pass Premium Member 5 months ago
Eggs as a thing have been around for hundreds of millions of years. Chickens? Varies, but unstuffed 100 minutes at 180 F.
saywhatwhat 5 months ago
If the pig wants to be right, he should have said, “Which will come first…”
serial232 5 months ago
If you believe the Bible, ( and I very much do), the chicken came first. If you believe in the religion of science, than the chicken came first.
ChessPirate 5 months ago
I don’t think the assumption in panel 2 should be deemed correct. Given that, I say the Egg with the first chicken in it came first…
oakie817 5 months ago
the rooster
Rich Douglas 5 months ago
Egg. All chickens come from eggs, but not all eggs produce chickens.
As the species evolved, there was some point where it mutated from a non-chicken to a chicken. That mutation-cum-chicken came from an egg.
AndrewSihler 5 months ago
It hath been verily said, that a chicken is just an egg’s way of making another egg.