Religions, Written Language and Verbal Traditions

Talk about some themes such as creation stories and gaps in history between creation/ human origin and dirty first contact with humans to bring religious details to the people. Western culture often values what is written as more historically sound than oral traditions of verbally passing down info. Why are there no first hand written accounts of humans who were around at creation time? History of alphabets and writing are a phenomena that appeared later in history after humans had already been on earth for generations.