The six-year old scientist

[chromodynamics]

My son (6) was talking about chicken eggs with his grandmother (they boiled an egg to see the bubbles so she could demonstrate porosity) and I started to sing that age-old refrain, "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" To which my son immediately responded, "The Chicken!" I replied, "Are you sure? Then where did the chicken come from?" To which he again immediately responded, "The dinosaurs!"

How I love my little scientist.

Comments

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

One simply cannot argue with his special brand of brilliance. :D :D :D

[madlori.livejournal.com]

Heeee! SCIENCE!

If you want to impress your son, there's an actual scientific answer for the chicken-and-egg question. It has to do with the mechnism of evolution.

The modern chicken evolved from some immediate ancestor, call it a proto-chicken. The proto-chicken evolved and mutated until at some point, some chicken laid an egg that contained a chicken that was sufficiently different to qualify as a new species, the modern chicken. The mother was a proto-chicken, the egg she laid was a modern chicken. Therefore, the egg came first!