I posted this little comic on my Facebook page the other day. It's just a silly sort of riddle, really. It's the song that has no end (or beginning?). It's kind of like the chicken and the egg riddle, or the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it. It's a matter of infinite regress leading to the question of first cause--as old as Aristotle and Aquinas.
What's surprising is the number of comments the comic drew. People are inclined to answer the question according to their own core beliefs, whether they be religious, or evolutionist, or scientific and so on. And you might be amazed to see the wealth of literature available online devoted to the riddle. Of course none of the answers stands very well, because there really is no answer available to us. One fellow confidently answered that Adam and Eve must have had navels because the apes they came from had navels. But then, how did the first ape come by his or her navel? Would the first aardvark, arising from the primordial soup, have had a navel? If so, he could not have been the first aardvark, right? The chicken comes to existence by hatching from the egg and the egg first comes from the chicken in order that the chicken may hatch from the egg. Lol.
I guess the best response is to shake your head, laugh, and say "Wow, that's weird!"
I guess the best response is to shake your head, laugh, and say "Wow, that's weird!"
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