Maybe Earth will outlive Venus. It’s all speculation. I was not “seriesly” speculating about the actual nature of the planets. I was providing conversational fodder for varmintman, who had commented to me that Venus seems younger than Earth and Mars.
I was just over-summarizing CS Lewis’s Sci-Fi novel, “Perelandra.”
So the book’s a little off — it’s not much of a stretch to say that no green humans live on Venus either. But the books (”Out of the Silent Planet,” “Perelandra,” and “That Hideous Strength” are an interesting way for Lewis to help us fallen humans understand our own situation. God talks to us in many ways, including through all the analogies he has made for us.
That’s why it is called fiction.
Nevertheless a totally fascinating topic....and who says we cannot speculate? We were given imaginations for a reason. I, for one, wish I had such an imagination!