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According to Genesis, after Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge, God casts them out of Eden, telling them, “you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Yet only three verses later, God says that these creatures have now become godlike: “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” This religious myth is emblematic of a deep philosophical puzzle: Human beings are mere matter in a world composed of physical particles and fields. Yet, it seems that there is moral good and evil and that we are capable of knowledge and purpose. Philosophers have tried to find a middle ground between dust and gods, attempting to assimilate human knowledge and agency within a worldview in which anything real can be explained by the natural sciences. This often includes simply denying that there are any objective moral truths. Is the naturalistic middle ground stable? Can we deny the objectivity of moral norms without falling into an incoherent nihilism?