Yes, but is a chicken egg one that’s laid by a chicken, or one that hatches the chicken? The answer to that question affects the answer to which came first
There was never any point where a non-chicken laid an egg that hatched into a chicken. Evolution doesn’t care about our categories, just as the rainbow doesn’t care about our colour words!
It’s not even an interpretation thing, that is what the question is actually asking. It’s implicitly understood to be about chicken eggs
Yes, but is a chicken egg one that’s laid by a chicken, or one that hatches the chicken? The answer to that question affects the answer to which came first
It’s one that hatches a chicken. An egg layed by a chicken is a chicken*'s* egg. If a chicken doesn’t come out of it, it ain’t a chicken egg.
It’s one that contains a chicken:
A chocolate egg is an egg that contains chocolate, not one that is laid by chocolate.
QED
There was never any point where a non-chicken laid an egg that hatched into a chicken. Evolution doesn’t care about our categories, just as the rainbow doesn’t care about our colour words!