The two are incompatible. When using IT to model evolution, noise is mutation. He appears to have failed to discern that the same thing would happen across generations even if evolution did not take place. Basically, its flaw is another in a long line of those in which metaphor is stretched too far by comparing biological systems or organisms to various artificial systems or artifacts. Organisms used to be compared to machines, ever since Descartes did it, and now they are compared to computers.
Metaphors are useful to get ideas across.
As an English teacher and writer, I wouldn't badmouth them. That is what BE has done. Contrary to engineering systems, there is no encoding process in evolution. The information is always encoded and does not require re-encoding after decoding. DNA is only decoded, and it transmits its decoding device along with its information, something that no engineering system does.