| John Frame: You know, we don't really need to remember any of the classic answers to why the chicken crossed the road, so let's all try and be really creative in coming up with a new answer.
Cornelius Van Til: To truly understand *why* the chicken ultimately crossed the road, you must show that your worldview can intelligibly account for the concept of chickenness, the reliability of the chicken's senses (to know where the road was), the uniformity of nature (to allow the chicken to fully cross) and many other things. As we will see, only a Christian can consistently believe the chicken actually crossed the road, and furthermore, only a Christian can consistently ask that question in the first place.
Gordon Clark: Well, the chicken did not actually know the road was there, since it cannot understand Scripture - therefore, it must have crossed it for some other reason. In order for us to understand why, we must have an axiomatic beginning and show that the notion of the chicken crossing the road is coherent from those axioms. But since they can never be proven, we only know that the chicken crossed the road for sure in a fideistic way.
John Robbins: It does not matter why the chicken crossed the road at this point, since that simple, isolated observation lets us know that it is a heretic anyway.
Tim LaHaye: The chicken crossed the road to serve as a sign to us that the Rapture is near.
Abraham Kuyper: The chicken crossed the road to demonstrate the wonder, sovereignty and glory of God in the many realms of life, such as natural creation (through the chicken's nature), man's constructions (through the road) and the realm of philosophy (through the concept of desire in the chicken).
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