Archaeologists who study the ancient civilization of Maya puzzle about the date 3114 B.C., because the Mayan calendar started in 3114 B.C.
No, that's not really how it works. The Mayan year that we call 3114 B.C. is, to the Maya, the year zero. Their calendar was operating years before that. From the book
Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson:
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The Maya chose to correlate their zero on the 'long count' with the date 4 Ahau 8 Cumku in the 'calendar round'... [which] correlates with 13 August 3114 B.C in our Gregorian calendar.
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Mayanists give this date as 0.0.0.0.0-which is the beginning of the current 'great cycle' of time, due to end on 23 December AD 2012.
Now, you may have found an arbitrary coincidence, but I'm not even ready to give you that. Based on what others have pointed out, your chronology of the Bible is off to begin with.
It truly is mysterious why the Mayan picked that date, but it is no-bit mysterious as to why you picked it
.
Also, if this date is so important, why is it only seen in one ancient culture? Literalists will always try to find correlations between their story and reality, always completely ignoring any contradictions. It seems to me that this is exactly what you are doing, though poorly.
Jon