“design is a postulate or hypothesis at best, and its main claim was only advanced recently”
It is what my mother was taught by the nuns in Catholic schools from 1917 through 1931. The term ID was not used, but the substance is the same.
Nothing in Catholic doctrine is incompatible with modern Biology. Design as a concept and ‘intelligent design’ as a postulate are not even similar. Design as a concept means that one thinks that the universe was set along ordered lines by an intelligent agent. ‘Intelligent Design’ is the postulate put forward that the biological innovation necessary for common descent requires the intervention of the designer at various points in history.