Those who believe the record of Genesis account for genetic differences by two mechanisms: created diversity and mutations. For the Y chromosome, mutations appear to be sufficient to explain worldwide Y chromosome diversity. Also, for rare autosomal variants, mutations appear to explain their origins within a few thousand years. However, for common autosomal variants, creationists have proposed that common genetic variants represent created diversity which God put into Adam’s genome. Evolutionists oppose this view, insisting that all genetic variation is due to mutations accumulated over millions of years. To test these opposing interpretations of the origin of genetic variation, the pattern of distribution of genetic variants across the human genome was determined to see whether the variants on Y chromosome and the autosomes have different mechanisms of origin. This investigation finds that the concentration of common genetic variants found on the Y chromosomes in the 1000 Genome database is 183 per million bases versus a mean of 2,958 per million bases found on the autosomes, indicating that the Y chromosomes lack created variants. The common variants on the X chromosome fall in an intermediate position of 1,890 per million bases, an indication that some created variants are carried on the X chromosome. Consistent with a mutational origin for all of the Y chromosome common variants and a created origin for most of the autosomal common variants, these findings provide an independent line of evidence supporting recent created diversity as the explanation for most human genetic variation.