"Obviously, the Egg Came First!"

[To know]

"First, came the egg. The chicken was merely a whimsical afterthought!"

 

[Caliban]

"First, came the egg. The chicken was merely a whimsical afterthought!"

To finally end the debate: get on Amazon; order a chicken and an egg--see which arrives first.

 

[Occams Barber]

"First, came the egg. The chicken was merely a whimsical afterthought!"

A once fascinating question raised by some ancient Greek philosopher over two thousand years ago.

Eventually resolved by Mr Darwin's Brilliant Idea.
OB

 

[Occams Barber]

To finally end the debate: get on Amazon; order a chicken and an egg--see which arrives first.

I'm still waiting on a book I ordered from Amazon (USA) three weeks ago, so the Amazon answer would be - neither.
(I suspect Amazon US does it's deliveries to Australia by using a small kayak to cross the Pacific.)
OB

 

[Caliban]

I'm still waiting on a book I ordered from Amazon (USA) three weeks ago, so the Amazon answer would be - neither.
(I suspect Amazon US does it's deliveries to Australia by using a small kayak to cross the Pacific.)
OB

Bummer. I would hate to return to a world where I couldn't hit a button and a book shows up a day or two later. I didn't know Amazon service was so spotty in Australia. At least there is the internet.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

"First, came the egg. The chicken was merely a whimsical afterthought!"

Why did the chicken cross the road quickly?
Because he didn't want the egg to come first!

 

[Occams Barber]

Bummer. I would hate to return to a world where I couldn't hit a button and a book shows up a day or two later. I didn't know Amazon service was so spotty in Australia. At least there is the internet.

I think delivery is generally OK if your product is stocked by Amazon's Australian warehouse and you live in a large metro area. In my case the book wasn't available locally so it had to come from somewhere called Edison in the US. I also have the problem of living a long way from The Big City in a lost little place where there's no home mail delivery (i.e. I have to go to the PO to pick up my mail/parcels.)
OB

 

[Caliban]

I think delivery is generally OK if your product is stocked by Amazon's Australian warehouse and you live in a large metro area. In my case the book wasn't available locally so it had to come from somewhere called Edison in the US. I also have the problem of living a long way from The Big City in a lost little place where there's no home mail delivery (i.e. I have to go to the PO to pick up my mail/parcels.)
OB

Yep, a lot of small book stores sell their books through Amazon. They do take longer--for me too. When I can, I choose books that are identified as an Amazon fulfillment product. Those are stocked in the warehouses and protected by robots. But, then in the middle of the night I feel remorse and start thinking about that title books store in Ohio or apparently, Edison.

 

[Strathos]

When I was a child I always considered this to be a silly question, because everyone knew that dinosaur eggs were around before chickens were.

This was before I knew that young earth creationism existed.

 

[Chesterton]

Eventually resolved by Mr Darwin's Brilliant Idea.

Instead of "the chicken or the egg", we could amend the dilemma by more precisely asking "the chicken or the chicken egg".

 

[d taylor]

Eggs were not brought onto the ark.

 

[Caliban]

Eggs were not brought onto the ark.

You guys have to be more careful here; I can't tell when you are joking with this creation stuff.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

When I was a child I always considered this to be a silly question, because everyone knew that dinosaur eggs were around before chickens were.

This was before I knew that young earth creationism existed.

Yep. That's why the dinosaur crossed the road.
Chickens weren't invented yet!

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Eggs were not brought onto the ark.

You mean, Noah didn't have bacon and eggs for breakfast while on the ark?
I guess that the eggs would have been an offering from the chickens, and the bacon would have been a sacrifice for the pigs on board...

 

[d taylor]

You guys have to be more careful here; I can't tell when you are joking with this creation stuff.

Creation, i do not recall stating a joke.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Creation, i do not recall stating a joke.

The sense of humour didn't evolve in everyone!

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

I'm still waiting on a book I ordered from Amazon (USA) three weeks ago, so the Amazon answer would be - neither.
(I suspect Amazon US does it's deliveries to Australia by using a small kayak to cross the Pacific.)
OB

No. It came by pigeon but when flying over Pitcairn Island, one of the islanders shot it down and it ended up in pigeon pie and he ate it while reading your book!

 

[Caliban]

Creation, i do not recall stating a joke.

I think you missed my joke. On this forum there are some silly ideas about science and I can never tell who is being ironic and who is....intellectually, still in the egg.

 

[Occams Barber]

I think you missed my joke. On this forum there are some silly ideas about science and I can never tell who is being ironic and who is....intellectually, still in the egg.

According to his tagline, Mr Taylor is both Creationist and Flerfer:

Gods created Creation
Heaven and Earth
Is Flat and Stationary​

Looking at his posts, Mr Taylor does not do humour.
OB

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

According to his tagline, Mr Taylor is both Creationist and Flerfer:

Gods created Creation
Heaven and Earth
Is Flat and Stationary​

Looking at his posts, Mr Taylor does not do humour.
OB

My view is that life is so serious that we shouldn't take it seriously.