Lamarck began the evoltuionary talk in "intellectual" circles before Darwin did. But darwin added the twist of natural selection as the mechanism that leads to the myth of evolution. Whereas Lamarck believed that creatures evolved as they needed to. For example-a giraffe "evolving" a longer neck because it keeps reaching higher into trees for leaves to eat.....LOL
Go from the presence of a foolish man,
when thou perceivest not in him the
lips of knowledge.
Proverbs 14:7