Which Came first, The chicken or the Egg? Evolution can't answer this

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Evolutionist Misconceptions: Correcting Mistakes in Memes by Evolutionists:

Meme: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Evolution can't answer this."
Excerpted from: http://rationalfaith.com/2017/03/unmasking-mistakes-in-memes-of-evolution-part-2/#meme_chicken_orthe_egg

Here we see problem #3: Claims which avoid the issue and never address the problem that has been pointed out.

I suppose this meme is persuasive to evolutionists, some of whom believe that dinosaurs evolved into birds. (Yes really.)[4] So they see a theropod dinosaur, and then a chicken and believe the chicken evolved from the dinosaur. Need I state the obvious? There is no evidence in this meme of the question at hand, namely which came first - the chicken or the egg; or the dinosaur or the egg for that matter. And in passing, neither is there any evidence in this meme or in the fossil record that dinosaurs evolved into birds - but that's a separate issue. Back to our question at hand - chicken or the egg, which is first? Merely stating "Yes, it can." is not evidence. As atheist and evolutionist Christopher Hitchens affirms: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."[5] This meme merely Avoids the question, thus with no evidence I can dismiss it with a logical wave of Hitchen's hand bearing Hitchen's razor.

This leaves standing the original assertion: Evolution can't answer which came first the chicken or the egg? No doubt evolutionists will want to throw Hitchen's razor back at me and say neither have I offered any evidence. Very well then, I offer this: What is it that allows a fertilized egg to hatch into whatever laid the egg? Answer: To a large degree, the information and instructions in the DNA in the egg of course. A better question is what is the source of information? Answer: The only source of information is an intelligent mind. Well known intelligent design advocate Stephen Meyer states:

“So at present there is no naturalistic explanation, no natural cause that produces information. Not natural selection, not self organizational processes, not pure chance.

“But we do know of a cause which is capable of producing information, and that is intelligence.”[6]
Stephen Meyer

Evolution has no answer to either origin of the information in DNA, or the chicken or the egg - which first problem; but scripture tells us the intelligence came from God, and the mature creature God created came before the egg. (Gen 1.20-25)

Duane Caldwell
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Excerpted from:
Mistakes in Memes of Evolution Part 2

Notes
(Numbering continued from the original article)

4. The hypothesis that dinosaurs evolved into birds are suggested in evolutionist works such as The Dinosaur Feather Mystery, (Discovery Documentary, 2004); and not so subtly depicted in graphics such as the cover of evolutionist Jerry Coyne's book, "Why Evolution is True", (New York: Penguin Group, 2009, cover) which depicts - a theropod to bird transition. That he intends this to show evolution is suggested by both the title of the book and the fact that he includes the bird Archaeopteryx in the sequence which most evolutionists claim as a feathered dinosaur. View a replica of the cover here.
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5. Christopher Hitchens; Some call this "Hitchen's razor" See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens's_razor
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6. Stephen Meyer, Unlocking the Mystery of life, Illustra Media Documentary (DVD), 2002
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Meme by Duane Caldwell © 2017
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