One of the little slices of pleasure in Holyagnostic's life has been recently blemished. Scientist have announced that they now know the answer to one of the most prominent of the unanswered questions of life: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg."
Holy doesn't know much about the science involved, but here is the way the conclusions were described in the New York Daily News.
"It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first," said Dr. Colin Freeman, of Sheffield University's Department of Engineering Materials.
Researchers wrote in a recently published report that it all comes down to one protein - ovocledidin-17 - which helps in the formation of the egg's hard shell.
This essential ingredient in the formation of the egg can only be produced inside a chicken, scientists from universities in Sheffield and Warwick concluded.
The fun for Holy came from walking up to information booths at malls, interstate rest stops, or office towers and asking the age old question. The looks he gets!
Holy thinks he will change the interrogatory to, "Which came first, the chicken or the eggplant?"
