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发表于 2011-7-22 07:06 PM
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AGelbart wrote:
> Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The semi-crude humorous answer is that the rooster came first.
The nit-picky answer is that the egg (dinosaurs laid them) came first.
Then you have to ask which came first, the chicken or the *chicken* egg.
The "evolutionary" answer is that there's not a clear dividing line
between the chicken and its not-a-chicken precursors and therefore the
question is kind of meaningless.
The serious answer is that it is just a semantics question, a matter of
how you define "chicken egg." Suppose that you can come up with some
incredibly precise "what's a chicken" criteria and use this to identify
the very first chicken. Then...
(1) If you define the chicken egg as "an egg which *contains* a
chicken," the egg that hatched the first chicken would count, and
therefore the egg came first.
(2) If you define the chicken egg as "an egg which was *laid by* a
chicken," the egg that hatched the first chicken would not count, and
therefore the chicken came first.
别跟我说这点英文你都读不了,talk origins是什么都不知道 |
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