 In addition to English, the Christian version of the project has also been translated to Spanish, Portuguese, and French.Rabbi Letter

Unitarian Universalist Letter

Buddhist Clergy Letter

The project was organized in 2004 by Michael Zimmerman, then a biology professor and dean of the College of Science and Letters at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.He was motivated to create a petition by the actions of the school board in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, which had passed some anti-evolution policies in the summer of 2004.