I'm not going to claim that I understood everything in the second half of the Dialogues, but I can see when something changes radically here- Philo goes from tearing down the idea of intelligent design to accepting that chance couldn't have formed the world. He analyzes the good doctor Galen's work with cadavers and takes the complexity of even the simplest body parts to imply the existence of a designer for the world. Philo's love for Galen's work is odd enough as it is, but it's even stranger when you think about how truthful a lot of this passage is for the pro-creation narrative. It's really strange to consider that people like Darwin could have read this and how it could have influenced them. As easy as it is to say that any and all of this book is Hume's own opinion, I can't help but feel that he included this brief section in the book because he thought it was a legitimately good reason proving intelligent design. Finally, I think that Philo's closing words in this paragraph are the underlying theme to everything he says later on in Part XII- "... to what pitch of pertinacious obstinacy must a philosopher in this age have attained who can now doubt of a Supreme Intelligence!" This sentence pushes Philo's recurring idea of the ideal skeptical philosopher being properly brought to Christ through natural revelation.
Edit: I commented on Eliza and Rebecca's posts.
Edit: I commented on Eliza and Rebecca's posts.
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