About our EvolveFISH enterprise

EvolveFISH is an enterprise based in Colorado, and we are dedicated to countering the destructive aspects of religious zealotry. We create and gather enlightened symbols and materials and advertise these products online; with special focus on areas where zealots are trying to usurp the freedoms of the targets of their bigotry.

EvolveFISH has now survived 14 years of battling the evangelical fundamentalist religious right. We can't claim to have won, but we are still here and we are proud to be out of the closet!

We appreciate your business because your purchases keep us going here in the crazy fundamentalist town of Colorado Springs (home of the New Life Church and Focus on The Family - yikes!)

Way back in 1993 when we started, most of the country thought we were reactionary crazies and that no one would take the creationist / intelligent design folks seriously. Sadly, we have to say: "na-na-na-na-boo-boo!" We were right, and they were wrong. The lunatics are gradually taking over the American asylum.

Unfortunately, the human species has EVOLVED to pay more attention to fear and emotion than to logic. So the idea of living again with a god after you die is a very tough one to give up. As they say: "Fear Sells, Are you Buying?" Now is the time for all of us rational folks to be afraid, as the real nut jobs are at the helm.

Buy from us so we can continue to support progressive folks and ideals. Put a sticker on your car, a button on your shirt, a shirt on your chest, and a magnet on your fridge, locker door, computer case or file cabinet, and help others to be brave. You'll find that you'll make more friends than enemies and you will feel empowered again!

If you want to know more, just e-mail us or give us a call. Real people answer our phones during regular business hours (9am-5pm Mountain Time, Mon-Fri)

We are actively involved with many atheist, freethought and humanist groups. Click HERE to see some pictures of us and our office.

Charles Darwin on religion:
"I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true: for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all of my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine."

I have seen several discussions of the Darwin FISH, its history, and what it means. I think this one might be about the best:

"Good hearing from you. You're right. There are lots of good stories to be told about the Evolution of the FISH image. Its origin as an ancient symbol for love (and the pubic region), its usurpation by a Roman cult as a secret signal... Its abandonment in favor of a symbol denoting pain and death. Thousands of years of languishing in symbol limbo.
Then to be resurrected..!!! Raised from the dead in the 20th century... as a consumer product!!! Spreading across the face of a thundering religious rebirth like a cosmic smile...!!! And between its lips, it says the word Jesus, or IXOYE, or Lord.
Then the Word is changed. It says heaven, or Peace, or Love. Then comes Savior, Save and SALE... During this process, a heretical tradition develops and flowers in the form of Scientists named Copernicus, Pasteur and Darwin. The "pain and death symbol"-crowd are enraged. They murder and shun the heretics. But still they continue to assert their heretical "REASON".
Decades pass with Science and Reason holding sway. Then the Pain and Death crowd charge back..!! Creationism and prayers are forced into schools. Public treasurers pay the approved preacher, and heretics are suspected and shunned, and murdered if they practice their medicine in the Wrong Way.
About this time some people get annoyed. A graphics artist adds feet and the name of Darwin to the FISH. The P & D crowd are pissed. It makes them MAD... But lots of other people see it as a symbol of noble and necessary resistance. THESE people rally get to IT and hold it up for others to see. They talk about it and answer questions and say YES... I support REASON. I Support Science. I DO NOT support fear or superstition or hatred or prejudice..!!!
And people replace the Word again and again. DARWIN is replaced by Gefilte, and Science, EVOLVE, and DINNER. People come together in secret and share these symbols. They send them to their fathers and daughters, buy them for professors, doctors and scientists. They display them on autos, backpacks, file cabinets and refrigerators."