My stance is that creatures were laying eggs millions of years before the first chicken was born.

People are confidently saying that the egg came first. But the answer really depends on the askers definition of what a “chicken egg” is. Is it an egg that a chicken hatches out of? Or is it an egg, laid by a chicken? If it’s the former, then yes the egg came first. If it’s the later, then the chicken came first.

If you’re talking about the chicken and egg problem in the abstract, i.e. how do you determine “what caused what” in a system that feeds back into itself… the answer is that in feedback systems, determining blame or ascribing one or the other as the cause is simply meaningless, and you need to examine how the system behaves as a whole, and how the different parts contribute to the output of the system in various configurations.

The super-dimensional beings that wrote the chicken script came first.