Cracking the Great Egg Mystery

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds” (Genesis 1:24 ESL).

Dinosaur eggs? Chicken eggs? Turtle eggs? Snake eggs? Platypus eggs? Aren’t eggs, eggs? That’s scrambling my head to think about all that.

It’s an egg mystery. How will we crack it? How do you know what kinds of eggs are at your house?

Well, you cannot ‘egg-nore’ what creature laid the egg.

To crack the mystery, you ask, “What came first? The chicken or the egg?”  Chickens lay eggs that hatch chickens. Dinosaurs lay eggs that hatch dinosaurs. Snakes lay eggs that hatch snakes. Turtles lay eggs that hatch turtles. And on it goes.

How do you know what kind of creature will come out of an egg? God put it in order. He organized it so each creature has babies like itself. It’s ‘egg-citing’ that God made different creatures to come from eggs. Your job as an egg detective is to diligently ‘eggs-ecute’ a hunt for creatures that lay eggs. Then you will have the clues. You will know which babies are in which eggs.

If eggs came first, it could be ‘egg-stremely’ scary. What if you were ‘egg-specting’ a chicken and got an alligator instead? God made an order, a pattern that is faithful and good.

God made the animals first and each egg-laying creature had babies like their parents.  Remember that, and you will be an ‘egg-cellent’ egg detective!

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Julie Hagel