From my experience with fundamentalism, I'm fairly sure that this is "the thing" with Pete:

Either the Bible is inerrant, or it isn't; if it can't be trusted as to history and science, we can't know that it can be trusted as to the "plan of salvation".

But the great majority of people are forced to conclude, from overwhelming evidence apparent to their "God given" brains, that a significant portion of the content of the Bible is not literally true. And as to the process of God using men to provide an infallible document, that is problematic in all kinds of ways to say the least. Did the authors hear an actual voice dictating to them? What does our experience say about the "track record" of people who believe that they have heard God's voice give them specific instructions? Was the Bible given by "mechanical dictation" ? That theory probably still exists, but I'm fairly sure that even most fundamentalists today back away from that. But,for the Bible to be created infallibly, each author would have had to be somehow rendered infallible as to what he wrote down at the time.

Human beings have experienced countless moments of great wisdom and insight. But I submit that no human being, whether Pope, televangelist, author, parent, founder of a religion, or whatever, has ever experienced a single moment of infallibility.