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Well, Nietzsche and Kant are more closely related than most people give them credit for, but, granted, that's mostly on epistemology than ethics. And my former advisor is a big Kant guy, so I supposed I've picked up a bit.
Insofar as you think consciousness cannot be explained by evolution alone, you might think you need God to explain it. Mind you, even I'm not really convinced by this; I think you need more than a bare materialism to account for consciousness, but do you need God? Maybe, but probably not, at least as far as we know. I just mentioned it as a possibility.
Morality's a bit harder. When I'm being careful, by morality I mean that set of directives that are necessary towards leading the most flourishing sort of human life, and the Nietzschean dictum, "Never act in such a way that you are acting out of weakness rather than out of strength" is not the worst general moral dictum I've heard. But I think that at the end of the day, to explain the existence of categories such as "good" and "evil", "justice" and "injustice", you need God. My reasoning is, well, to be generous, complicated (if you're feeling less generous, you'd call it confused), but I've tried to explain some of my reasoning here before.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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