Methinks the point is more that the earliest life had the makeup of a virus (a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat I believe is the key) than the fact it had to live off other organisms. Life had to start somewhere, and with all life today having to feed of something organic then we'd be in trouble if we apply that logic to this situation.
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"'There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person,' says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex."
-- From an IGN game review.
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