August 21, 2023

I want to talk about something of the utmost scientific importance.  It’s a question the CDC, NIH, NASA, and even Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson are woefully unqualified to answer.  I suspect the advertising executives at Anheuser-Busch think they know the answer, but they also came up with the “what could go wrong?” Dylan Mulvaney marketing strategy — so keep that in mind.

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Here’s the big question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?  It isn’t just a riddle.  I actually have an answer, and an important point — which I’ll get to in my meandering, “overly complicated as only an engineer can make things” kind of way.

Before we can arrive at an answer, we need to make one assumption.  Should we assume divine creation or evolution?  Is our presence explained by faith or science?

Divine creation would say the chicken came first.  The Bible says that on the sixth day, God populated the earth with the animals of the land.  Before the sunset of that day, some chickens and roosters got together and began the business of making more chickens and provisioning breakfast.  A chicken spontaneously created by God laid the first egg.  Hence, the chicken came first.

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I’m guessing the left isn’t too keen on that explanation, so let’s examine the alternative.  Let’s take a look at evolution — the non-faith-based explanation for how we all came to be.

Evolution would say that the egg came first.  According to Charles Darwin, at some point in history, a non-chicken animal laid an egg with a mutation.  That egg, which was genetically divergent from its mom and pop, eventually hatched into a chicken.  The chicken DNA started as a mutation in the egg.  Hence the first manifestation of chickenness occurred in a shell.  The egg came first.

Which theory do you suppose the folks dedicated to saving the planet from the weather would subscribe to?  Would the left accept that some animal gradually mutated over millions of years to become a chicken?  Or would they prefer to believe that God snapped his fingers, and the animal kingdom magically appeared?

I suspect that the self-proclaimed followers of consensus science would prefer the evolution explanation.  Accepting the notion of an all-powerful living God would have to scare the crap out of them.  It would mean there is nothing relative about good and evil, and their perpetual state of flirtation with evil might be a bit problematic in the afterlife.  Being sensitive to every leftist’s delicate worldview, I’ll proceed with my argument on the assumption that there is no God, and there will be no afterlife in which they’ll need to do some serious explaining — wink, wink.

For purposes of this article, I’ll assume that evolution is how we all got here, and the answer to the all-important question is that the egg came first.  Of course, that conclusion also means that what we are is defined by our genetics.  According to the theory of evolution, slowly mutating genes are what allowed cute furry critters to eventually evolve into obnoxious leftist know-it-alls.

But if we’re going to accept the science of genetics, we don’t get to ignore the “X” and “Y” chromosomes, just because they’re inconvenient to useful idiots with gender confusion.  Those chromosomes are not imaginary.  They really exist — in every human cell.