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[Sweeney]

The modern chicken descended from another closely related species of birds, the red junglefowl, but recently discovered genetic evidence shows that the modern domestic chicken is a hybrid descendant of both the red junglefowl and the grey junglefowl. This proves that others came before the chicken making them perfectly able to hatch the egg carrying the first chicken in existence. The chicken egg came before the chicken.

That sounds very clever, but still hinges on one thing that you haven't actually addressed.
It depends entirely on how you define "Chicken egg".

Either, you define it as an egg that came from a chicken, in which case the chicken must necessarily have come before the chicken egg.
Or, you define it as an egg that contains a chicken, in which case the chicken egg must necessarily have come before the chicken.

The references to junglefowl, no matter how correct, are irrelevant.

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[zyzzisking]

That sounds very clever, but still hinges on one thing that you haven't actually addressed.
It depends entirely on how you define "Chicken egg".

Either, you define it as an egg that came from a chicken, in which case the chicken must necessarily have come before the chicken egg.
Or, you define it as an egg that contains a chicken, in which case the chicken egg must necessarily have come before the chicken.

The references to junglefowl, no matter how correct, are irrelevant.

To your first point, the first official chicken ( official denoting a genetic and physiological make-up that would translate into an organism resembling that of the modern day chicken) may have been the product of genetic mutation--as is the case of the majority of evolutionary stages--and thus two fowls may have produced an egg that hatched into what we would now know as the chicken, hence making it the egg coming first.

[Sweeney]

To your first point, the first official chicken ( official denoting a genetic and physiological make-up that would translate into an organism resembling that of the modern day chicken) may have been the product of genetic mutation--as is the case of the majority of evolutionary stages--and thus two fowls may have produced an egg that hatched into what we would now know as the chicken, hence making it the egg coming first.

Only if you define a chicken egg as one that contains a chicken. As I just posted.
Please don't try to lecture me on the subject of my degree.