Spain saved Europe by defeating the Ottoman Turkish navy in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Afterwards, though, instead of freeing the Mediterranean from Ottoman control, King Philip II sent the Iron Duke of Alba to commit the Spanish Fury, killing 10,000 Dutch Reformed in Antwerp, Belgium, and sending its Invincible Armada to conquer Anglican England.
Why was the sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada significant to America? Had Spain succeeded in their attempts to conquer England, there may have been: no Anglican England; no Puritans wanting to "purify" it; no Pilgrim separatists fleeing it; no New England colonies being settled, and, quite possibly, no United States of America.
YMCA founder Sir George Williams wrote: "My life-long experience as a business man, and as a Christian worker among young men, has taught me that the only power in this world that can effectually keep one from sin, in all the varied and often attractive forms ... is that which comes from an intimate knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as a present Savior."
Dershowitz continued: "Darwin's theories were being used ... by racists ... to further some pretty horrible programs ... The eugenics movement, which advocated sterilization of 'unfit' and 'inferior' stock, was at its zenith, and it took its impetus from Darwin's theory of natural selection" ... Thetextbook Scopes wanted to teach was ... a bad science text, filled with misapplied Darwinism and racist rubbish."
On October 18, 1931, President Herbert Hoover: "This civilization ... which we call American life, is builded and can alone survive upon the translation into individual action of that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago."
