Such an old question.
I will write my opinion. I did not read what is written here in the various answers.
Regarding the question "what came first, the rooster's egg or the rooster" (and not "what came first: the egg or the chicken") the answer is:
From an evolutionary point of view: the egg. That is, "a rooster as we know it" was born from an egg laid by a rooster with some mutation that preceded the rooster of today and the new mutation in this egg: it is the first rooster in the form we know it today.
From a creation point of view: the rooster. The animals were created in their mature form (at least according to Judaism)
Philosophically: Probably the Rooster Since an egg is a means of creating a Rooster, if a "Rooster" is created, we have no indication of how it was created other than the fact that it was created, and so, although it is likely that the Rooster was created like the Rooster we know: from an Egg, but since this is a contradiction, we have no reason to assume so. And so it is simply said that all we know is that first a rooster was created. Regarding the question of how it was created, we have no indication of that.
---This is if we say that the rooster is necessarily a created thing (and it was created as a rooster)
Truly in ancient philosophy they came to the conclusion that the world is primordial and all the animals were on it from the beginning and were not created. By the logic of the question we can understand why philosophically this makes sense despite the induction...
Note that I only answered the question "what came before what: a rooster as we know it or a rooster's egg as we know it" and not "what came before what: a rooster or an egg" etc. It will change differently, depending on the wording and depending on the point of view.
I will write my opinion. I did not read what is written here in the various answers.
Regarding the question "what came first, the rooster's egg or the rooster" (and not "what came first: the egg or the chicken") the answer is:
From an evolutionary point of view: the egg. That is, "a rooster as we know it" was born from an egg laid by a rooster with some mutation that preceded the rooster of today and the new mutation in this egg: it is the first rooster in the form we know it today.
From a creation point of view: the rooster. The animals were created in their mature form (at least according to Judaism)
Philosophically: Probably the Rooster Since an egg is a means of creating a Rooster, if a "Rooster" is created, we have no indication of how it was created other than the fact that it was created, and so, although it is likely that the Rooster was created like the Rooster we know: from an Egg, but since this is a contradiction, we have no reason to assume so. And so it is simply said that all we know is that first a rooster was created. Regarding the question of how it was created, we have no indication of that.
---This is if we say that the rooster is necessarily a created thing (and it was created as a rooster)
Truly in ancient philosophy they came to the conclusion that the world is primordial and all the animals were on it from the beginning and were not created. By the logic of the question we can understand why philosophically this makes sense despite the induction...
Note that I only answered the question "what came before what: a rooster as we know it or a rooster's egg as we know it" and not "what came before what: a rooster or an egg" etc. It will change differently, depending on the wording and depending on the point of view.
