An Evolutionary Connection Between Plants and Animals?

[Mermaid]

I would think there’s some kind of evolutionary connection between plants and animals, because plants contain the vitamins that out bodies need.

Intelligent design cannot account for this. It would have to be a very crappy intelligence that put the vitamins we need inside plants and then failed to put in our bodies the enzyme we need to digest those plants. Perhaps the same crappy intelligence that put the knowledge of good and evil in a plant and then told the man not to eat the plant. A spiritual interpretation of Genesis? I think not.

Is it possible that plants are the link between anaerobic life that existed before the Great Oxygen Event and the aerobic life after that event?

Plants and animals have a common ancestor if you go back far enough, so there is a definite link between life pre-oxygen and post-oxygen. And yes, there is a pretty clear selective path between what we have become and what we eat.

Same goes for plants and the soil they grow in, and bacteria and the environment they live in, etc etc.