Originally posted by UshgarakIt would more likely have been an evolutionary process over millions of years. You can't just say this is where is became a chicken.
I have NO idea why you think that. It is entirely possible the egg came first; a pre-evolutionary stage of the chicken laid it and a chicken came out. That is actually more likely.
On the contrary, at ONE point it would one day be what we would call a chicken whilst its parents were not. There HAS to be a cut-off point for species somewhere.
And no, Raz- seriosuly, that theory disposes of the theory of 'perceived' time entirely. We are not perceiving time. We don't even think we are. So they say.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
On the contrary, at ONE point it would one day be what we would call a chicken whilst its parents were not. There HAS to be a cut-off point for species somewhere.
Think about it Ush. It wouldn't have suddenly turned into a chicken. It would have had a mixure of the ancestors of chickens and the chickens we have today. i.e. it might have had scales AND feathers. Is that a chicken?
'They' is whatever phD scientist is fronting his latest theory to the Lancet. 'No-time' theory lkast diud rounds last September; articles in the broadsheets and so on, pointing out that the Greeks first thought of it.
And I repeat, Raz, that there would be, at SOME point, something we would define as a chicken as opposed to something we would not. A half-chicken is not a chicken. And as such half-breeds do not exist today they could not be considered species.
There WOULD be such a thing as the first chicken.