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To: DanD who wrote (68679)	5/26/2008 7:40:34 PM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 542481

The chicken and egg still works as a philosophical metaphor and easily understood. But not so much as a scientific question anymore. The chicken and egg works as a philosophical metaphor, only insofar as there is ambiguity in talking about an egg or a chicken egg. Science deploring ambiguity tells us that the egg came before the chicken. At precisely the time this determination is made we also discover thus, that the chicken came before the first chicken egg. This sounds ridiculous, but I think we can agree that this is the philosophical implication of the scientific formulation. If the non-chicken egg came before the chicken egg, you can say it came first, but the egg out of which the first chicken popped was a chicken egg, so what can you do. I think such conundrums have to do with our use of language, which is unavoidable, and the fact that language is a proxy for reality, it is not the thing itself. Ultimately, the chicken and it's egg co-arose. Been fun chatting with you, over and out.