An unorthodox belief in God.

[Cato]

Now, give me an exhaustive full explinatory reason why animals are conscious.

My dining room table has never been happy to see me when I get home from work. My dogs on the other hand....

Certainly this is not definitive proof, but animals exhibiting emotion and intentionality is compelling. Nobody can deny their capacity to suffer. Some species can pass the mirror test for self awareness, something infant humans cannot do. Scientists are in consensus regarding animals having the right 'equipment' for consciousness.

From the Cambridge Declaration On Consciousness:

“The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”

http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDe...usness.pdf