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Sorry, that was a misstatement. To another Christian of similar beliefs, in context this would have been understood to mean "biblical evidenct", which means a biblical passage to support a theological belief.

*Derails the topic a bit*

I think this explains a lot in some of the communication issues that exist between the evolution folks and the creation folks. "Evidence and proof" seems to come from the bible and is widly thought of as fact. So when someone used to this thinking hears evolution is a theory, they have an easier time dismissing it due to the wording. Where as all it really means is the scientific community doens't write something as true 100% fact until the entire thing can be explained and proven repeatedly.

To bring it a bit back, this could be a similar wording problem with the whole gay marriage issue. Christians are used to the word marriage meaning a joining of a man and woman based on how it is done in the bible. While others simply see marriage as the same as a union. You can see this in how people use the word, things like saying "he is practicially married to his job".