The most famous and obvious example is evolution. The etiological account of natural selection deals both with the genetic mechanisms of transfer involved and with the selection mechanisms. But in all this discussion, it would seem that a goal necessarily implies the existence of an intent aimed at achieving it. Any action taken without an evident intent is, by definition, an automatic action. With an automatic action, no choice is available, no degrees of freedom, nor freedom of action.
Automatic actions are, ipso facto, deterministic.
But both statements may be false. Surely we can conceive of a goal-oriented act behind which there is no intent of the first or second degree. An intent of the second degree would be the intent of the programmer as enshrined and expressed in a software application, for instance. An intent of the first degree would be the intent of the same programmer which directly led to the composition of said software. House pets act.