A mentor of mine, Helen Bangs Weygand, taught the bible from a scientific point of view. She found through her research that there are 3 days each year, during the winter, when the soil bacteria stops all activity. In other words it goes dormant for those 3 days.
During the summer the Sun actually reaches its furthest point from earth and yet our weather is at its warmest. During the winter the Sun reaches its closest point to earth and yet our weather is at its coldest. This has to do with the angle of the Sun’s energy as it reaches our atmosphere which changes along with its distance from us.
Helen said as the Sun and earth approach their closest point to each other the Sun causes the bacteria in the soil to move deeper until December 22 when all activity stops or goes dormant until December 25 when the earth begins to move away from the Sun and bacterial activity starts up again as it moves back up through the soil. In other words the Sun pushes the bacteria deeper and then pulls it back up as the earth moves through its orbit.
December 25th, the celebration of the rebirth of planet earth?
Lynn Allan Kelly 
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