You have been rebuked on understanding the Genesis 1 creation account, and try to
wordcraft your way out of it by an outrageous claim and ignoring the Truth of what the passage in Genesis 1 does say.
There was no mud to dry out for creation because the "dry" was called forth from the waters on day 3 of creation week, all "dry". Then, and only then, did God name the "dry", "Earth".
You you do not believe God named the earth, "Earth" only on day 3 of creation week, and there was no mud, but "Dry", when He named it, which name, "Earth" came to mean the whole globe/Tebal [transliterated to English, we call it "globe".
You do not believe God created the heavens and earth all of a piece, on day 1, and that the heavens were not even named "Heavens/Shamayim", until day 2 of creation week, because they were not yet "expanded" between the cut in two waters of the created globe, and so on and so forth.
Your belief system is not the Word of God, and as such, it is "all wet"....
God put all the ingredients for all that He would call into being, out of the created Waters of creation, for every thing that He called forth, to "Be", out of the created waters.
Yes, the elements were there, in the created waters of this created globe, but they were not "formed" into their various and sundry divisions of created things, which all were called into being by the Word of God, out of the waters.
It took no time for God to create all things, for it happened as soon as He spoke it into being, out of the elements of the Waters of creation.
He did not even take time to call each life form into being out of the waters on day 5, but commanded the waters to bring forth the life, even the fowl that fly in the "face" of the stretched out heavens:
God did not even take the time to call into being the vegetation on all the globe called "earth" on day 3 of creation week, but commanded the earth, itself, to bring forth the life.
Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
There was no creation before Genesis 1 and there is no gap between Genesis 1:1, and Genesis 1:2, for there was no light, no stretched out heavens, no "Dry" called out of the waters, and no temple of God set in the heavens, in the created Mennorah, the Governor of the Light by day, where He declares that He has set His created temple in His created heavens that revolve in the circle around the globe called "Earth, once, every "Day".
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open/face firmament of heaven.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Creation was supernatural and did not take time. God spoke, and it was.
Light was, on day 1.
The heavens were stretched out from this