Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI’m not saying some completely different bird laid an egg that contained a chicken. The change may be gradual, but the mutations still happen in the eggs. The first chicken or chickens were hatched, not transformed by radioactive goo.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
And what I’m telling you is that there was no first chicken, just like there was no first Spanish speaker. Species don’t evolve that way.
guy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Doesn't the saying go 'there's a first for everything'?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Just because it’s a saying doesn’t mean it’s true for everything. Every child is the same species as its parent.
guy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Sure, and since that means that there can be no new species unless they magically appear, there is only one species on this planet. Just very.. varying