This whole thing gave some people 'the shivers', but not I, since I'm very strong to the Christian faith, I think its pretty amazing. Read it, and post what you thought.
'Miracle' Discovery in an Ireland Bog 
A construction team working in a bog in Ireland's midlands was digging up bogland to create commercial potting soil when one of the engineers spotted something in the muck just beyond the bucket of his bulldozer.
That something was a 20-page ancient book of psalms written in Latin script that archaeologists have dated to the years 800 to 1000, reports The Associated Press. It is bound in leather velum and looks like a very thick wallet. This is the first discovery in two centuries of an Irish early medieval document, prompting Pat Wallace, the director of the National Museum of Ireland, to call it a "miracle find."
The book was discovered in the third week of July 2006, just as war erupted between Hezbollah militiamen and Israel. It was open to Psalm 83 in which God hears complaints of other nations' attempts to wipe out the name of Israel. Psalm 83 is also known as a prayer for Israel.
O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!
For lo, thy enemies are in tumult;
those who hate thee have raised their heads.
They lay crafty plans against thy people;
they consult together against thy protected ones.
They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
Yea, they conspire with one accord;
against thee they make a covenant--
the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
Gebal and Ammon and Am'alek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Assyria also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. [Selah]
Do to them as thou didst to Mid'ian,
as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,
who were destroyed at En-dor,
who became dung for the ground.
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,
who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves
of the pastures of God."
O my God, make them like whirling dust,
like chaff before the wind.
As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
so do thou pursue them with thy tempest
and terrify them with thy hurricane!
Fill their faces with shame,
that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever;
let them perish in disgrace.
(Psalm 83, verses 1-18 )
Eventually, this ancient book of psalms will be put on display. First, however, scholars will conduct a painstaking analysis of its contents. "There are two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out," Wallace told AP. "First of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing."
The owner of the bog also took immediate action to save the book by keeping it covered in damp soil until the archaeological team could get to it. Had he not done that and instead left it exposed overnight, Wallace said it could have dried out and "just vanished, blown away."
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