[jlgreco]

You don't have a chicken/egg problem with either biological evolution or computers. With biological evolution abiogenesis is at the bottom of the turtle stack, with computers it is likely some guy poking holes in some cards or rewiring a computer by hand.

Ultimately you don't need life to create life, and ultimately you don't need a computer program to build a computer program. There are other methods, even though we don't see those methods executed today.