Which came first-the chicken or the egg?

We've all heard the question "which came first-the chicken or the egg?" sometime in our lives. (If you haven't, then you either born yesterday, or spent your entire life living as an albino afraid of the sun). This question is seemingly impossible to answer, or so most people say. In a sense this belief is actually a fact. At first, you would believe that since chickens come from eggs, it would make sense that the egg came first. However, you would wonder where the egg came from, because eggs come from chickens. Then you think-"Wait, eggs come from chickens;chickens come from eggs. It's a cycle with no beginning, so there isn't an answer to this question! HA! Take THAT Dalai Lama!" Well,in my view, if you were to think about how an egg hatched, you may find a rather different answer. For example, an egg needs nuturing from its mother; without it it would not be able to hatch. If, say, God were to leave a single chicken egg out cold and alone, it would just sit there until it evolved into the first bare rock. So you now know that an egg can't hatch on its own. You may also know that chickens are the closest relatives to the dinosaurs, which makes them..pretty much ancient...therefore, if you were to look at the question this way, the chicken would have come first. Just to let all you know, this was my view of the question. It is not biased in any way whatsoever (though I do like eating chicken more than eggs...)