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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork  I am pretty sure that you have separate words for these concepts. Let's look at science.
Let's suppose that I am testing a new antibiotic. I mix the antibiotic with a growth medium and put the mixture in a petri dish. I then add bacteria to the petri dish and incubate it. After several days, there is no bacterial growth. Now, I have evidence that the new drug is effective, but I don't yet have proof. How do I prove it? I do another experimant with the same medium, bacteria, incubator, and petri dish, but I leave out the drug. If the bacteria grow in the second dish, I have proof that the drug was responsible for the lack of growth. If there is no growth in the second dish, I have evidence that something else interfered with the bacterial growth.
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Thanks for your effort to make me (can I use it here?) understand it, Mike!
It did help me a little to see the difference. I think I can understand it somewhere in my mind, but am not able to find an applicable Czech translation for it. I have tried to look it up in several dictionaries and it always "indicates" (it's not the right verb here, is it?) the Czech translation of both proof and evidence as "důkaz".
I can understand the difference between them in the examples you gave me, but if I had to write my our sentences or had to complete an exercise with "proof/evidence", I am not that sure I wouldn't fail.