The Chicken Came Before The Egg

Ladies and Gentlemen,The Chicken came before the egg.Before I post the logical reasoning for my line of thinking let me introduce you to the line of thinking that creates the burden of proof on the debaters for proving which came first. My argument in a nutshell is that the conditions for life to exist, in any thought process, whether religious or scientific, denotes the idea that life has to preclude the reproduction of life. My point is to begin you, as the judges on the right footing for grounding yourselves in the question of, "How can it exist?" and in the case of a stalemate realize the tie breaker that the existence of a chicken is more likely than the random existence of an egg.Here is the evidence:#1 - Embryonic Development:In the purest logical line of thinking the egg is an embryo. This is true because the egg is literally the reproductive cell of the female chicken that is incepted by the male. In this instance then the development of an egg can only be linked to have been existing in the ovaries of the chicken and thus can never have existed before the existence of the chicken that transferred its DNA. Similarly if this debate goes beyond the literal, in an abstract sense, the egg as the new life can only exist where it replaces the old life (AKA its parents or the male and female chicken the incepted it).#2 - Evolutionary ThoughtThis argument goes to compliment the previous statement as here I will appeal to those that believe in the evolutionary cycle of life. As we are taught and understand, the idea of evolution at its purest sense explains that there is life that is always evolving. Meaning, for the purpose of this debate that the chicken at one point had to come first as it was the evolutionary offshoot of another species. This being said, that means that the chicken (Lets assume a mutation of another animal) then had to reproduce with another of its kind to make more of this new species. In the purest logical sense then it is more logical to assume that the chicken had to have been some sort of being to exist to reproduce with another.#3 - All Lines of Thinking Conclude ProAs I have appealed to above, whether you are religious, scientific in thinking or some mix of in between, the logic that all beliefs follow (Creation or evolution) hint to the idea that there has to first exist the animal before it creates more. Let us start with religion, if some higher being had created the Earth, then by religious standards the animals and all that this God created came before the animals reproduced. Simplified, I mean that the "God" would not have simply created an egg but instead the chicken to reproduce. The evolutionary line of thinking is explained above but to reiterate, the evolutionary cycle can only be explained if the chicken came before hand and then reproduced its own kind.#4 The Chicken as a MetaphorFrom an abstract sense the chicken itself has to come before the egg as well. To think metaphorically the egg is the beginning of new life, but this new life is confined in this argument to the idea that it is the reproduction of life in the image of the parents or "inceptors" of life. This then is the only explanation for how then life can be reproduced as it has to be modeled off of the pre-existing. Lastly allow me here to pre-empt answer some of my opponents most common choices for argument. "But the chicken cannot simply exist" - You are right if make this argument but let me say that this statement is precluded by my distinctions in religion and in evolution that explain the origins of "Chicken" mean that it had to come first (whether by evolution/mutation or by creation of a higher being)."You said egg means life so life had to start at egg" - True again I did claim that life starts at the level of the egg but I also challenge the con to meet the burden of this debate by justifying the true definition of the egg which is reproduction of life of the chicken. Thus then I win the argument that the first chicken exists out of the confides of the egg and could have come about as I have said before through mutation or simply creation.Thanks for listening y'all and I look forward to an awesome debate!