Evidence or Belief?

What follows is the result of oversleeping and missing a morning train (the next one being more than four hours later...)

If we consider the question, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" And assume for the moment that we still want to answer the question seriously rather than marginalise it to the realm of a teasing childrens paradox.

I believe, for now, that the question is easier solved if we first answer the question of what came first: evidence or belief...

When drunk people believe they are invincible (or the worlds best karaoke singers) they have no evidence of this but rather a belief induced by alcohol. Of course, this is not neccesarily a belief that they are the worlds best karaoke singers, but it provides suitable courage for the task to be attempted. If sufficiently drunk, when at the microphone they do quickly believe that they are the greatest and continue inflicting Vogon Poetry on the rest of the audience.

In short: the answer to the question of what came first, evidence or belief is...

An earlier kind of belief.

Thus the answer to what came first, the chicken or the egg....

An EARLIER kind of egg!

Seems quite logical in the end, doesn't it.