The Bible clearly states that humans were created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26–27). This makes us distinct in certain ways from the rest of the creatures God created, including primates. In addition to obvious outwardly visible trait differences, it would make sense that we would find certain regions of the genome that are distinctly different between humans and other animals, and this is in fact seen. Secularists postulate that these genetic differences arose from accelerated evolution since the time that humans allegedly diverged from apes; thus they call these regions human accelerated regions (HARs). HARs are exceedingly problematic for evolutionists due to the fact that they tend to be highly conserved across vertebrates but are markedly different in humans. However, within supposed vertebrate lineages, many of these regions are taxonomically isolated—they seem to arise suddenly—with no evolutionary history. A new phylogenetic analysis of 105 HAR genes in 10 different vertebrate taxa show that these sequences also display remarkable phylogenic discordance on a broad scale. This is inconsistent with the idea that these genes were generally conserved for tens or hundreds of millions of years but then suddenly evolved into taxonomically restricted forms. The data is more consistent with the creation model, wherein the genes that encode taxonomic distinction were custom designed.