I wish I could remember where I first read it, but I do recall reading many years ago an article dedicated to the proposition that we should always capitalize the word "Earth" unless we are specifically referring to dirt rather than the planet we live on. Without the capitcal "E", the word suggests that the only place with dirt, the only planet in the universe is this one. It obscures the reality that we live on what is just the tiniest of specks in a magnificent universe. It is as if the
Copernican Revolution never happened. The failure to capitalize the "E" when referring to the Earth also forces us to make the word an
exception to the rule that specific heavenly bodies are capitalized, especially the planets of our solar system. We live on the Earth. Amen.
