For this week’s Mindlovemysery’s Menagerie Friday Faithfuls challenge, Jim is asking us to write anything about how old the planet Earth is.

Astro physicists set the age of the planet Earth at about 4.5 billion years. Some religious and biblical “scholars” claim that the planet is between 6,000 and 10,000 years old. It makes for very interesting and sometimes heated debates.

But from my personal perspective, how old the planet Earth is has little bearing on our lives. On the other hand, how much longer the planet will be able to sustain human life is a much greater concern for me, especially when I think about my grandchildren.

So I think we should stop looking backward and arguing about how old the planet Earth is, and start looking forward to come up with workable solutions for saving the planet Earth in order that human life can continue to exist on it.