What Came First, The Eggshell or The Chicken?

Genesis 1:12-18 NASBS

The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. [13] There was evening and there was morning, a third day. [14] Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; [15] and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. [16] God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. [17] God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, [18] and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

While there could potentially be a better scientific explanation for the origin of things, that is not the case here. What I mean is that in the natural process of things, sunlight is necessary for photosynthesis to occur.

However, in this scenario, there was no photosynthesis because there was no sun present when trees, fruits, and vegetables sprouted. There was light, but no sun.

This brings me back to the age-old question of what came first, the eggshell or the chicken? Is there a creator responsible for all things, or did everything simply come into existence by chance?

In these verses, it becomes evident that God is the creator, designing every detail with such precision that science can only describe its effects and laws, yet struggles to point to the Designer and how everything was created out of nothing.

This knowledge alone is “too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to it” (Psalm 139:6 NASB).

“In the intricate web of creation, science unveils the effects while faith reveals the Creator.”