Re: [Vo]:[OT] DOM Vote

[Nick Palmer]

Of course a cell does not defy entropy. It takes in a certain amount of 
energy, uses that to reduce the entropy of the materials it takes in to make 
what it "desires". The amount of increase of entropy (disorder) caused by 
the use of the energy is larger than the amount of decrease in entropy 
(increased order) of the products of the cells production. It's like running 
up a downwards moving escalator - you get higher by expending a lot more 
energy (increasing entropy) than you could recover by going down again once 
you reached the top.

Nick Palmer