Exactly where he was in the first place!
This question is a bit like "What was the biggest island in the world before Australia was discovered?"
Look at how dry land is being made even today by sedimentation, silting up, and volcanic activity.
It is a NATURAL process.
The fossil record shows natural evolutionary processes at work too, as does the Lenski experiment with 45 000 generations of E.coli bacteria over twenty years.
Evolution is another natural process, just like producing land.
Have you ever seen the dust forming into animals? Neither has anybody else!!
HB