a faulty jump to conclude that morality is relative. As lexicographer Samuel Johnson put it, “The fact that there is such a thing as twilight does not mean that we cannot distinguish between day and night.” Moral principles are discovered, not invented. Moral reforms (abolishing slavery, advocating women’s suffrage, promoting civil rights for blacks) make no sense unless objective moral values exist. Even if creating the atmosphere for reform may take time (even centuries), this does not imply that