This would go for any miracle recorded in the Bible. There is no possible way that Jesus could have risen from the dead given Sagan's presuppositions. Sagan's presuppositions won't allow it. Pure materialists like Sagan have no trouble, however, explaining evolution in terms of unseen natural forces. Natural selection is not random, nor does it operate by chance.
Natural selection preserves the gains and eradicates the mistakes.
This is a description of what a person with innate intelligence would do. Never mind that no one has actually seen this process take place. Given the criteria of what constitutes the paranormal, evolution would be considered paranormal. Even so, evolution is believed with religious fervor. Those who claim that there is always a rational and naturalistic explanation for every seemingly unexplainable phenomenon have a serious problem with their own worldview because what they believe sounds like an episode from X-Files .