Can You Clarify a Statement in Richard Dawkins' Unweaving the Rainbow?

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How does Dawkins' statement "the potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia" qualify as "evidence-based science"?

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