What Came First?

Question from class: did the chicken come first or did the egg come first?

I would, in all seriousness, have to argue that the egg came first. If we are thinking about this from the perspective of a creationist, or someone of that mindset, we cannot know because 'god' could have very well made either first. I determined that, evolution tells us that before there was a chicken, there was an almost-chicken. So, basically, go back until you find the first thing that you would consider a chicken, that chicken was born from the egg of a almost-chicken. A hybridization of fowls, over a given length of time, could have very well resulted in the creation of a chicken egg, which is to say, again, the first creature that we would consider a chicken.