How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them? According to one school of thought, before the current era of DNA-based life, there was a...
The egg came first.
… an egg laid by something that was almost, but not quite, a chicken.
I was going for the analogy but yeah sure
I know what you were going for, I was pointing out that it was a bad analogy.