As a reflection on a larger issue, today I've been confirmed as "not so crazy after all." You see, I've been getting flack, quite a bit lately, for "complicating things," for refusing to accept the simple answers, and being willing to consider that things can in fact be more complicated that the apparent answers, yet elegantly simple at the same time. What the hell is he talking about, you might ask. Well, many people sit on one side of an issue or the other, claiming that it is either black or white, the chicken or the egg. And whenever I try to explain that the true answer is almost always more subtle, I am greeted with hostility from both camps. Well, today I have my day, for a group of geneticists, philosophers, and chicken farmers have found the answer. You see, the geneticist has confirmed that genetic material does not change during an animal's life. The philosopher argued that the fact that the chicken grows up to be a chicken is fundamental to its identity as a chicken, regardless of whether or not its parents were chickens. And finally, the farmer showed that eggs have been around long before chickens. In summary: something that wasn't a chicken laid an egg, and inside that egg grew what would grow up to be a chicken. So you see, the answer is so very simple, yet it defies the dichotomous nature of the question. It is not a question of the chicken OR the egg, now we know that what really came first was the chicken IN the egg.

you can find the whole story here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/index.html.