Heard on timcast the actual numbers are ~8-12%.
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I'll have to disagree with that. All Adam needed to know is that disobedience = you shall surely die = bad. Indeed, he did know this.
If you posit that Adam and Eve did not have the power of choice until after the apple was eaten then the whole thing becomes a deterministic story and therefore meaningless.
They had choice within the world they existed in. The fruit was of knowledge of good and evil, knowledge that allows one to make decisions such as "lesser of evils" and "for the greater good." Morally good choices, that are still stained with sin regardless.
Such as betraying your wife because she fucked up. Morally good, but its still betraying one you are meant to love and protect. It doesn't seem complex to us because we already have that knowledge, but to a being without that knowledge it wouldn't even enter his mind.
He did know it, but he also loved his wife. He knew nothing of mistrust (suspicion requires knowing evil exists), so he simply ate what she offered to him. Its not even said if she told him it was the fruit beforehand, but that's extra headcanon territory.
If one posits that Adam knew it was the knowledge fruit, he had a very good reason not to eat it as that would be disobeying God. He didn't have any good reasons to eat it really - that wasn't going to save her.
If you posit that Adam didn't know what he was eating, then the story gets kind of wacky.
They were told they would die if they ate it. Eve ate and didn't die. Thereby he had no reason to mistrust her when she offered it. Without knowledge of good and evil, he couldn't discern that God lied for his benefit or not, she might be lying, that they were fucked, anything. He could only follow the thing that God himself said was "one in flesh" with him.
Heck by the way the Bible is written, its not even 100% confirmable that Adam wouldn't be fucked regardless of it he had eaten if Eve already had. They were in fact "one" as God decreed it upon her creation. You could argue just as easily he was the one at fault for not controlling and preventing her from doing so if you wanted.
Also I don't think him knowing or not knowing changes a whole lot other than making Eve look worse and him look even more innocent, but the end result is the same.
The problem is, God considered Adam culpable (although less than Eve), meaning that he could in fact discern enough to preserve his power of choice.