MIRACLE ON THE MENU

Have you seen any miracles lately?

Perhaps you enjoyed one or two for breakfast?

Well, you’ve had 1 of the ~5,000,000,000 chicken eggs laid every day and every one is the miraculous product of an intricately controlled assembly line.                    

Not only that, ~100,000,000 chickens are miraculously hatched every day.

Did you notice all the air bubbles escaping from your egg, especially from the larger end, when you gently dropped it into warm water? Over 10,000 pores in the shell admit oxygen for the chick and release carbon dioxide and water.                                      

After 19 days of incubation the chick discovers an air cell between the inner and outer semipermeable membranes, at the larger end of the egg and takes a 6 hour nap.  Not likely. Using the egg-tooth that has grown on its beak, it quickly commences pipping and cutting its way through the outer membrane and shell in search of more air. On day 21 it has recovered from the effort and is ready to stand on its own two feet and face the world in search of food. 5-7 days later that egg-tooth decides it’s no longer needed and drops off.
That’s all very convenient for the chicken – and it all conveniently ends up on our plate anyway.

So every chicken came from an egg – yes?

And every one of these eggs came from a chicken – yes?

So which came first?...the chicken or the egg?
The world’s philosophers have debated this for thousands of years. Aristotle chose the easy option by saying: “Both bird and egg must have always existed.”

Hang on - what about the rooster? Doesn’t Cockadoodle-do get any credit?

Obviously the philosophers weren’t backyard chicken farmers as kids or they would know, without a rooster and a hen, you can’t make pocket money selling chickens. (We know, don’t we kids!)
So where did the first poultry couple come from?
Perhaps a Creator did make ‘every winged bird’ after all??

Acknowledgements:                                                                                                                               wikipedia.org                                                                                        
chickscopebeckman.uiuc.edu
Dr. Jobe Martin, ‘Incredible Creatures’, Exploration Films .com
World Book 2005