Isn't it a tad suspicious that we suddenly have two new users coming here to ask us these things, shortly after an old user comes back and echoes those same questions? 
That being said, all the evidence that we have points to consciousness and thought being an emergent property of the configuration of our physical brains; if all you're going to do as argument is point to things that aren't brains and say they don't think, then we're kind of done here, because I can point to all the things that don't melt, but that doesn't mean melting doesn't exist, nor that it isn't adequately explained.
Even beyond all that though, given that atheism is solely a lack of belief in religious claims, it doesn't really need to explain anything; "I don't believe you," isn't a statement that requires an exhaustive knowledge of a series of attendant phenomena. The only conclusion I can reach is that you, OP, like those that came before you the last few days, do not understand what atheism is.
That being said, all the evidence that we have points to consciousness and thought being an emergent property of the configuration of our physical brains; if all you're going to do as argument is point to things that aren't brains and say they don't think, then we're kind of done here, because I can point to all the things that don't melt, but that doesn't mean melting doesn't exist, nor that it isn't adequately explained.
Even beyond all that though, given that atheism is solely a lack of belief in religious claims, it doesn't really need to explain anything; "I don't believe you," isn't a statement that requires an exhaustive knowledge of a series of attendant phenomena. The only conclusion I can reach is that you, OP, like those that came before you the last few days, do not understand what atheism is.
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