Conundrums!

[TsukikoSuoh]

So, recently I've been getting into conundrum; does anyone think that there's a real answer? if so, state your opinions below for both/either of these three.

1- If Pinocchio says that his nose will grow, what's going to happen?

2- If actions speak louder than words, then why is the pen mightier than the sword?

And for old time's sake...

3- Which came first, the chicken... or the egg? (dun dun DUN)

So if you have any opinions on these or any other examples of conundrums, feel free to share below!

PDBAZ!

[Ryan]

the first two are easy - pinocchio was a story created by a man, the story has a flaw in that the paradox you asked exists, so pinocchio cannot exist.

for #2 - both are sayings said by different men who believed different things (Mark Twain & Edward Bulwer-Lytton) so they really shouldn't even be compared

as for 3 the better conundrum is - if you follow evolution, bacteria was the first life...when did the egg show up? if you're a creationist then you believe the chicken came first so you're not gonna really argue much.

[Adrian (123easyway)]

#1: His nose goes inwards and outwards, eventually catching his face on fire, thus killing him
#2: Actions do speak louder, but it doesn't mean people will listen as much.
#3: Evolution says Chicken, and God made the Chicken, so it must be the egg.

[Nakor]

I think you have #3 backward there. The facts of evolution would have the egg coming before the chicken. It's creationism dogma that would have the chicken coming first.

[sightedkarma]

If you drop soap, is the soap dirty or is the ground clean?

[speakmouthwords]

The soap would be dirty, you need water as well to make the ground clean.

[RabbitWho]

Apr 3, 2010 10:59:43 GMT -5 Nakor said:

I think you have #3 backward there. The facts of evolution would have the egg coming before the chicken. It's creationism dogma that would have the chicken coming first.

Do we know that egg-laying creatures didn't evolve from something that didn't lay eggs?

[Nakor]

Oh, we know they did evolve that way. (They must have, because the first forms of life were asexual.) The first egg-laying creature obviously didn't come from an egg (or its parent would have been the first egg-laying creature). That was asked in another forum.

However, this is about the chicken. Since whatever came before the chicken was presumably also an egg laying (oviparous) creature, and the mutations that cause evolution occur in new creatures (ie. the young) we can safely say the pattern was:

not-quite-chicken egg -> not-quite-chicken -> almost-a-chicken-now egg -> almost-a-chicken-now -> chicken egg -> chicken

Ergo, the chicken egg came before the chicken. (And a bunch of non-chicken eggs came before the chicken too.)

So: The egg came before the chicken, but the oviparous creature came before the egg.

[Silverrida]

#1 is quite simple actually. Pinocchio is mistaken.

The other numbers have been answered sufficiently.

[Gafro]

3. The dinosaur egg came way before the chicken.

[Lex]

What if Pinocchio told something untruthful, but was not aware that it was a lie?

[Silverrida]

Apr 3, 2010 17:32:22 GMT -5 Lex said:

What if Pinocchio told something untruthful, but was not aware that it was a lie?

#1 is quite simple actually. Pinocchio is mistaken.