By Vincent Van Ross

If human beings and other mammals are doing fine with babies, what was the need for god to create eggs as a means of reproduction?

Was Man made in the likeness of god as the scriptures say; or, did we evolve into Homo sapiens as the theory of evolution claims?

Why couldn’t all living beings be born in this world in the form of babies? Why do some of them have to enter this world in the form of eggs and then break out of their shells?

The pangs of laying an egg could not be any less than the birth pangs of delivering a baby. Except maybe in the case of kangaroos whose babies are too small to hurt their mothers during the process of their birth.

If we believe in the evolution theory, all birds, mammals and reptiles have a reptilian origin. Going by that, the descent of Man could be traced to reptilian origin. Does that mean that some of our forefathers could have been born out of eggs?

If god could create babies why did he create eggs?

Was it to create a third category of people based on their eating habits? Wasn’t he content with vegetarians and non-vegetarians that he had to create a third category of eggetarians—a term that has been coined to describe people who eat eggs but do not eat other non-vegetarian stuff? As to whether an egg is non-vegetarian or not is still a matter of debate.

Or, was it to offer scientists some food for thought?

Or, did god do it in one of his mischievous moments to perpetuate the debate on whether the egg came first or the chicken? At best, we can ask the chicken…because, we cannot ask the egg!

Talking of evolution, could an egg laying reptile evolve to such an extent that it starts producing babies instead of eggs as in the case of human beings? And, not continue to lay eggs like the birds and other reptiles which have evolved from them?

That is a crooked question! Who has the answer to this question? Is it science or religion?