Okay, then why don't you explain to me what happens to them?
Because church was canceled this morning because of ice. I'm watching a movie...
Hell is simply eternal separation from God, not punishment for not being submerged in dogma during life (which can be its own form of hell.) If God is truly omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent (which is outside of time, so there is no such thing as "before" Jesus) and omni-benevolent, then the whole point is for all people, even the little pygmies in Africa, to spend eternity with God.
Several places in the Bible speak of general revelation, which is the idea that even if those poor, ignorant people don't have the means to steal a Gideon's Bible from a motel or watch Creflo Dollar on t.v., God reveals himself to them in some way.
One of my favorite Christian authors puts it this way:
"Jesus said, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but my me.' (John 14:6) He didn't say that any particular ethic, doctrine or religion was the way, the truth, and the life. He said that he was. He didn't say that it was by believing or doing anything in particular that you could 'come to the Father.' He sai that it was only by him--by living, participating in, being caught up by, the way of life that he embodied, that was his way.
"Thus it is possible to be on Christs' way and with his mark upon you without ever having heard of Christ, and for that reason to be on your way to God though maybe you don't even believe in God..."
By this definition, I think there are a lot of people I know who won't touch Christianity and its off-putting dogma with a 10-foot pole and a handful of card-carrying atheists who will not be burning in hell. After all, Jesus himself was not a religious man.
p.s. We should probably leave this thread to the evolution debate. This subject has been hit several times. I think it goes on for a while on a thread called "worry." I'm going back to my trashy movie now...