The word "evidences" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to facts that provide proof or support of something. For example, "The witness provided solid evidences of the defendant's guilt."
DH Society's increasing obsession with retro evidences a popular culture that has more or less run out of ideas; well, that and the aversion of those doing its buying and selling to putting in any kind of effort.
After clarifying the above points, I would like to make several observations: It's alarming that you, The Economist, would echo just one side of the case, because this evidences an ethical violation of the media's duty to investigate, consult, double-check sources, fact-check and verify information before publishing.
Today, evidences are all around of cross-disciplinary work and of fusion within a single social science of elements drawn from other social sciences.
When Emerson left the church, he was in search of a more certain conviction of God than that granted by the historical evidences of miracles.
Martyrs, however, are buried in the clothes in which they die, without their bodies or their garments being washed, because the blood and the dirt are viewed as evidences of their state of glory (see also Islām).
Earliest evidences for the next cultural advances are apparent by about 800 bc in changes in architecture and settlement pattern in several areas of Middle America and Peru.
The break in 1054 was followed by further evidences of alienation in the 13th century, in the sack of Constantinople by Western Christians in 1204 and the establishment of the Latin patriarchate there; and in the 15th century, after the failure of the union of Florence and after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.
In examining their tenets, one encounters such evidences of conservative evangelical belief as "plenary inspiration" (verbal inspiration of the Bible), "Christ's atonement for the entire human race," and "the personal Second Coming of Christ".
The caverns of the Causses du Quercy retain evidences of prehistoric man.
Evidences for ancestor cult practices dating to the 7th century bce were first discovered at Jericho in Palestine, where several skulls were found to have been deposited in a separate room, some of them covered with a plastic modelling of faces similar to that found on the ancestral skulls preserved by present-day agrarian peoples of South Asia and Oceania.
That polar-wandering curves for different continents do not agree was one of the first important evidences for continental drift.
